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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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 is disillusioned and in agony.
(d) Ottilie finds herself questioning her design sense.

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

6. Why does Ottilie avoid a path by the side of the lake?
(a) The path reminds her of her lost lover.
(b) She has been warned by the townsfolk that the path is cursed.
(c) The place fills her with dread and she gets a headache.
(d) She once fell from that path and hurt herself.

7. 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.

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

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

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

11. How does Eduard's part in the story end?
(a) He rekindles his love for Charlotte but never forgets Ottilie.
(b) He decides to rejoin the military and dies in battle.
(c) He blinds himself and wanders the roads as a beggar.
(d) He is found dead one day by no apparent cause.

12. What faux pas does the foreign visitor's companion notice?
(a) His friend has crossed an invisible cultural boundary.
(b) His friend mistranslated a normal word into a profanity.
(c) His friend has distinctly offended his host's family history.
(d) His friend has inadvertently saddened and tormented Ottilie.

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

14. What portion of the building being restored will receive special attention through painted decorations?
(a) The sunroom.
(b) The cellar.
(c) The drawing room.
(d) The chapel.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the story the foreign visitor tells Charlotte and Ottilie?

2. How does Ottilie die?

3. When Eduard leaves the place where he had been waiting for the Major, where does he go?

4. Which vocation does Ottilie decide she wishes to pursue?

5. What proposition does Eduard make to the Major?

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