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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. What building does Charlotte decide she and Ottilie will live in for a period of time?
(a) The servant's quarters.
(b) The pavilion.
(c) The chapel.
(d) The moss hut.

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

6. How does Charlotte respond to the Major's hopeful question about their future together?
(a) "All of us but one deserve the future you hold so dear."
(b) "We have not deserved to be unhappy, but neither have we deserved to be happy together."
(c) "When my heart is no longer heavy, then we shall see if it can once more be happy."
(d) "You and Ottilie may still have a future; Eduard and I have nothing but our past."

7. When Eduard leaves the place where he had been waiting for the Major, where does he go?
(a) The lakeshore.
(b) The main house.
(c) The pavilion.
(d) The chapel.

8. What is the general mood of the household when all four protagonists live there together again?
(a) The atmosphere in the household is lively and filled with positive ambiance.
(b) The mood is cold and everyone is suspicious of everyone else.
(c) All four protagonists find themselves completely contented with the new situation.
(d) It is almost, but not quite, like the serenity and tranquility of how things once were.

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

10. What was the architect's reason for not wishing his drawings to be shown to the whole company, as Luciane had entreated and Ottilie had encouraged?
(a) Even cultivated people handle delicate works of art roughly.
(b) He fears his plagiarism of the original drawings will be discovered.
(c) He is modest to the point of embarrassment about his accomplishments.
(d) Another guest expresses his desire to show his own collection of sculpture.

11. What is the long-term plan of the new house guest?
(a) To take a high class position at the royal court.
(b) To marry and to take over the management of the boarding school.
(c) To find a wife and settle down to a farmer's lifestyle.
(d) To travel the world and write a memoir.

12. What building does the architect persuade Charlotte to restore?
(a) The boathouse.
(b) The church.
(c) The pavilion.
(d) The stables.

13. Who helps decorate the building which has been designated for restoration?
(a) Ottilie.
(b) Nanni.
(c) Luciane.
(d) Charlotte.

14. What signal does Eduard arrange with the Major to notify him of his plan's success?
(a) The shrill blast of a trumpet.
(b) Smoke signals from a fire on the ridge.
(c) A messenger boy sent on a horse.
(d) Cannon fire or fireworks.

15. What is the principle task of the household Ottilie has undertaken?
(a) Answering all letters coming to the house.
(b) Organizing the serving staff.
(c) Keeping the household monies.
(d) Caring for Otto.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the general substance of the note Eduard writes at the place where he awaits Ottilie?

2. What is Ottilie's relationship with the architect like?

3. How does Ottilie react in the wake of the tragedy?

4. Whom do Otto's facial features resemble?

5. Where does Eduard ride to in order to await Ottilie's arrival at the beginning of Part II, Chapter 16?

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