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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which unexpected visitor arrives during the performance of the artistic activity planned by the architect?
(a) The mason.
(b) The Captain.
(c) The headmistress.
(d) The schoolmaster.

2. What decision does Ottilie make that breaks her usual care and good sense?
(a) To row across the lake with Otto aboard.
(b) To take Otto up a very steep and narrow cliffside path.
(c) To lay Otto down on the shoreline and walk alone.
(d) To leave Otto in the care of a young village girl.

3. What creatures does Luciane find amusing?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Elephants.
(c) Monkeys.
(d) Cockatiels.

4. Under what condition does Ottilie feel she could forgive herself?
(a) If she renounces her passion for Eduard completely.
(b) If she replays the tragedy over in her head enough times to purge her guilt.
(c) If she considers the tragedy a blessing in disguise.
(d) If Charlotte and Eduard also forgive her.

5. What effect does the foreign visitor to the estate have on Ottilie, when he expounds upon the uselessness of over improving the land?
(a) Ottilie feels offended by the man's presumption.
(b) Ottilie agrees wholeheartedly with the man.
(c) Ottilie finds herself questioning her design sense.
(d) Ottilie is disillusioned and in agony.

6. How does Ottilie respond to Eduard's note?
(a) By fainting dead away and waking in a trance.
(b) With an unusual but familiar gesture that is clearly a refusal.
(c) She flies into his arms and they kiss passionately.
(d) She begins to hotly berate Eduard for his foolish choices.

7. Where does Eduard wait, at least for a little while, while the Major relays Eduard's plan to Charlotte?
(a) The chapel.
(b) The inn.
(c) The pavilion.
(d) The farmstead.

8. What is the general content of Ottilie's fourth journal entry?
(a) Her own feelings about her relationship with Luciane, specifically.
(b) The necessity of, and arbitrary nature of, engaging with others in social settings.
(c) The necessities that keep women tied to the domestic sphere.
(d) The problems inherent in her passion for Eduard.

9. What mistake does Eduard make while leaving the note?
(a) He neglects to sign it, so Ottilie will not know who wrote it.
(b) He forgets that due to a change of plans, Ottilie will no longer arrive at that place.
(c) He accidentally leaves the note in the wrong room.
(d) He accidentally locks himself in the room which Ottilie will be occupying.

10. Upon what, to Ottilie, does her future rest?
(a) Her calling to care for Otto.
(b) The strength of Eduard's love for her.
(c) Charlotte's decision regarding Eduard's plan.
(d) Her own courage and strength of will.

11. What two things does Ottilie refuse to do?
(a) Paint and keep house.
(b) Speak and be Eduard's wife.
(c) Eat and read.
(d) Love again and forgive Charlotte.

12. What specific question of Eduard's is Ottilie able to answer with a nod in the affirmative?
(a) Would she would like to live with her great aunt?
(b) Would she like to go back to Charlotte?
(c) Will she consent to be Eduard's wife?
(d) Would she like to return to the boarding school?

13. What artistic activity does the architect plan for Ottilie to be centrally involved in?
(a) Reciting a series of Petrarchan sonnets.
(b) Exhibiting her artwork at the royal court.
(c) Portraying Mary in a tableau of the birth of Jesus.
(d) Hosting and starring in a pianoforte recital.

14. What does Charlotte agree to, in the midst of the tragedy?
(a) Eduard's request for a divorce.
(b) Suing the person responsible for the tragedy.
(c) Leaving the estate and live in a convent.
(d) Taking her own life and thereby atoning for her sins.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are the conditions on which Charlotte offers herself to the Major?

3. What thought about Ottilie's future preoccupies Charlotte?

4. To what does the narrator compare the common themes running through Ottilie's journals?

5. What activity of Luciane's, meant to amuse the company, ends up with Luciane looking foolish?

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