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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What seemingly miraculous event occurs during Ottilie's funeral?
(a) Nanni falls from a garret but is uninjured.
(b) The Major saves a young woman from drowning.
(c) Eduard tries to stab himself but the blade cannot pierce his skin.
(d) Charlotte learns she is pregnant again.

2. Whom does Eduard meet unexpectedly as he walks?
(a) Ottilie.
(b) Mathilde.
(c) Nanni.
(d) Charlotte.

3. Whose observations on the landscape of the estate serve to enrich Charlotte and Ottilie's experience of the land?
(a) The Frenchman's
(b) Herr Mittler's.
(c) The Englishman's.
(d) The Italian's.

4. Whom do Otto's facial features resemble?
(a) Charlotte and Eduard.
(b) Eduard and the Captain.
(c) Ottilie and Charlotte.
(d) The Captain and Ottilie.

5. What is the general substance of Ottilie's second journal entry?
(a) The dichotomy of good and evil.
(b) The transience of ownership of art.
(c) Her love for Eduard.
(d) The state of Charlotte's marriage.

6. What is the new house guest's philosophy on education?
(a) Learning does not stop when an individual leaves the schoolhouse.
(b) Girls are more apt to learn new things, while boys are more apt to retain knowledge.
(c) The best way to teach young people is through rote recitation.
(d) Boys should be taught to be servants, and girls should be taught to be mothers.

7. What new feature of Eduard's character makes him more like Ottilie?
(a) He loses his voice.
(b) He suffers from one-sided headaches.
(c) He eats less and less.
(d) His handwriting becomes more like Ottilie's.

8. How does Eduard view the tragedy?
(a) As a chance to rekindle and strengthen his marriage.
(b) As the worst possible circumstance to ever befall him.
(c) As an omen that his love for Ottilie is terribly wrong.
(d) As an obstacle to his happiness that has been removed.

9. To what does the narrator compare the common themes running through Ottilie's journals?
(a) To a garden in which patterns of hedges repeat themselves.
(b) To a novel with a specific trope repeating through it.
(c) To a garment with a regular weave of fine fabric.
(d) To a naval rope with a single strand of red thread.

10. What activity does the Count suggest would benefit from Luciane's personality?
(a) Concentrating on painting and drawing.
(b) Impersonating tableaux from famous paintings.
(c) Studying the piano to become a famous musician.
(d) Singing famous and worshipful psalms.

11. What specific form of memorializing does Charlotte admit having an aversion to?
(a) Portraits.
(b) Stone busts.
(c) Elegiac poetry.
(d) Tombs.

12. What is Eduard's plan for his own future?
(a) He and the Major will slake their lust by means of other seductions.
(b) He and the Major will swear to be bachelors forever.
(c) He and Charlotte will remain married, and he will conduct an affair with Ottilie.
(d) He and Charlotte will divorce, and he will marry Ottilie.

13. What is the title of the story the foreign visitor tells Charlotte and Ottilie?
(a) "The Passionate Shepherd and Lady."
(b) "The Unfortunate Young Lovers."
(c) "The Sensible Old Couple."
(d) "The Wayward Young Neighbors."

14. What conflicting feelings continuously torment Ottilie?
(a) Wealth and poverty.
(b) Living and dying.
(c) Anger and acceptance.
(d) Fear and delight.

15. What tragedy results from Ottilie's decision to go against what she knows is safe?
(a) Otto is killed by wolves.
(b) Otto drowns in the lake.
(c) Otto is crushed in a fall.
(d) Otto is accidentally poisoned.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gift do Charlotte and Ottilie give the architect?

2. Why does Ottilie avoid a path by the side of the lake?

3. What motion does Ottilie make that distinctly translates her desires for the future?

4. How does Ottilie die?

5. How does Ottilie respond to Eduard's note?

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