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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator consider to be the conflicting sides of Luciane's character?
(a) Although Luciane treats Ottilie with respect and deference, she secretly resents her.
(b) While Luciane is beautiful on the outside, her personality shows that she is evil.
(c) Although Luciane can easily win people over, she can just as easily offend and alienate them.
(d) While Luciane is homely and plain, her generosity and charity make her seem angelic to others.

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

3. What is Ottilie's relationship with the architect like?
(a) She disagrees with him about crucial design elements.
(b) She is madly in love with him.
(c) She easily gets frustrated with his incompetence.
(d) She treats him as if he were her elder brother.

4. How does the story told by the foreign visitor end?
(a) The protagonists must live apart.
(b) The protagonists learn a valuable lesson.
(c) The protagonists die.
(d) The protagonists marry.

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

6. How does Ottilie react in the wake of the tragedy?
(a) She acquiesces to Eduard's request for her hand in marriage.
(b) She immediately jumps into the lake and kills herself.
(c) She vows to become a nun and do only God's work from then on.
(d) She swears to atone for her sins by renouncing Eduard completely.

7. What activity of Luciane's, meant to amuse the company, ends up with Luciane looking foolish?
(a) Her dance performance in which she is accompanied by a harpist.
(b) Her idea of a game that involves the whole company.
(c) Her performance on the guitar and her accompanying singing.
(d) Her arguments in a carefully staged debate.

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

9. What is the nature of the solicitor's visit to Charlotte?
(a) The solicitor comes to advise Charlotte with regards to her pending divorce from Eduard.
(b) The solicitor's errand is to serve Charlotte with a court summons from a merchant in the village.
(c) The solicitor and his client disagree with Charlotte's decision to move the graves in the churchyard.
(d) The solicitor's client has decided to sue Charlotte for a large sum related to damaged property.

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

11. What does Charlotte warn Ottilie about, during their discussion of Ottilie's preferred vocation?
(a) The idea that her world can once again be make whole.
(b) The dangers of letting go of the object of one's passion.
(c) The impulse toward suicide, which is sinful and perilous.
(d) The desire to run away and start a new life, which is difficult.

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

13. Where does Eduard go once he is honorably discharged from the military?
(a) The main house of the estate.
(b) The farmstead.
(c) The pavilion.
(d) The chapel.

14. Which vocation does Ottilie decide she wishes to pursue?
(a) To become a great artist and painter.
(b) To teach at the boarding school.
(c) To become a governess to a wealthy family.
(d) To become a maid.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the new house guest's philosophy on education?

2. What is the general mood of the household when all four protagonists live there together again?

3. How did Charlotte find out Eduard had joined the military?

4. What specific question of Eduard's is Ottilie able to answer with a nod in the affirmative?

5. What tragedy results from Ottilie's decision to go against what she knows is safe?

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