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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Eduard ride to in order to await Ottilie's arrival at the beginning of Part II, Chapter 16?
(a) The farmstead.
(b) The pavilion.
(c) The lakeshore.
(d) The inn.

2. How does Eduard envision Otto will be raised?
(a) Charlotte will raise him, and the Major will act as his father.
(b) Ottilie will raise him, and Eduard will be his father in truth.
(c) Charlotte and Ottilie will share the burden of caring for him.
(d) Eduard will be a very close, caring father for his son.

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

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

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

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 swears to atone for her sins by renouncing Eduard completely.
(c) She vows to become a nun and do only God's work from then on.
(d) She immediately jumps into the lake and kills herself.

7. What gift do Charlotte and Ottilie give the architect?
(a) An engraved goblet.
(b) A pair of drafter's compasses.
(c) A waistcoat.
(d) A pair of gloves.

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

9. What thought about Ottilie's future preoccupies Charlotte?
(a) When Ottilie will die and how.
(b) What profession Ottilie will take and when.
(c) Whether Ottilie will forgive Eduard and why.
(d) Whether Ottilie will marry and whom.

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

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

12. 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.

13. What do the Major and Eduard first do when they are reunited?
(a) Go to the inn and get drunk.
(b) Agree to sabotage Charlotte's plan.
(c) Plan their next military campaign.
(d) Recall old memories.

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

15. 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) He fears his plagiarism of the original drawings will be discovered.
(b) He is modest to the point of embarrassment about his accomplishments.
(c) Another guest expresses his desire to show his own collection of sculpture.
(d) Even cultivated people handle delicate works of art roughly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character comes more into the forefront of Charlotte and Ottilie's life after Eduard's departure?

2. Which representation of an artistic work results in the most applause for Luciane?

3. How does Ottilie die?

4. What event endangers the protagonists of the story?

5. What event marks the newborn's baptism with foreboding?

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