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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

5. What are the conditions on which Charlotte offers herself to the Major?
(a) The Major must duel to the death with Eduard, thus proving the power of his love for her.
(b) Ottilie must be willing to unite with Eduard, and that Eduard and the Major leave the house for a time.
(c) She and the Major must be married right away so that she can try to have another child soon.
(d) Ottilie must never be turned out of their house but can never socialize with them again.

6. What, in general, describes Luciane's personality?
(a) She is energetic and attractive but can be annoying and ignorant of others' desires or needs.
(b) She is highly intelligent and beautiful and has a soft, compliant personality.
(c) She is overly critical of everybody, directly to their faces.
(d) She is reticent and argumentative, and people find her hard to get along with.

7. What event precipitates the arrival of Charlotte's daughter at the estate?
(a) Luciane's engagement to a wealthy young man.
(b) Luciane has been kicked out of the boarding school.
(c) The birth of Charlotte and Eduard's first child.
(d) Ottilie's death and her memorial services.

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

9. Which representation of an artistic work results in the most applause for Luciane?
(a) Mozart's "The Magic Flute."
(b) Jan Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring."
(c) Gerald Terborch's "Instruction Paternelle."
(d) Handel's "Messiah."

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

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

12. What is the general substance of Ottilie's first journal entry?
(a) The nature of portraiture and other memorials.
(b) The significance of Charlotte's silences.
(c) The contradictions inherent in social intercourse.
(d) Her own role in the running of the household.

13. Which character comes more into the forefront of Charlotte and Ottilie's life after Eduard's departure?
(a) The gardener.
(b) The architect.
(c) The mason.
(d) The parson.

14. Why is Charlotte agitated by the foreign visitor's tale?
(a) She feels that the visitor told the tale to deliberately upset her.
(b) She knows that the true story behind the tale involved the Captain.
(c) She finds the use of humor in the story to be in bad taste.
(d) She wonders whether something like the story will happen to her.

15. 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 finds herself questioning her design sense.
(b) Ottilie agrees wholeheartedly with the man.
(c) Ottilie feels offended by the man's presumption.
(d) Ottilie is disillusioned and in agony.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what condition does Ottilie feel she could forgive herself?

2. What are Eduard's plans for Charlotte's future?

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

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

5. How does Ottilie respond to Luciane's arrival?

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