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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Eduard's plans for Charlotte's future?
(a) She and Eduard will rekindle their love for one another.
(b) She and Ottilie will leave the estate in order to travel.
(c) She will die alone for her sins.
(d) She will keep the estate running with the help of the Major.

2. 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 finds herself questioning her design sense.
(c) Ottilie is disillusioned and in agony.
(d) Ottilie agrees wholeheartedly with the man.

3. What two things does Ottilie refuse to do?
(a) Speak and be Eduard's wife.
(b) Paint and keep house.
(c) Love again and forgive Charlotte.
(d) Eat and read.

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

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

6. Whom does Eduard meet unexpectedly as he walks?
(a) Mathilde.
(b) Ottilie.
(c) Charlotte.
(d) Nanni.

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

8. What is the architect reluctant to show publicly?
(a) His collection of drawings and sketches.
(b) His poems about Ottilie and Charlotte.
(c) His architectural plans for the restoration of a building.
(d) His diary entries which reflect his mental state.

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

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

11. Whom does Ottilie summon for help as the tragedy unfolds?
(a) Charlotte.
(b) Nanni.
(c) The Major.
(d) The doctor.

12. How does Ottilie respond to Luciane's arrival?
(a) By sulking in jealousy.
(b) By plotting revenge against Luciane for past slights.
(c) By becoming more talkative and energetic.
(d) By going calmly and cheerfully to work.

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

14. 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 never be turned out of their house but can never socialize with them again.
(c) Ottilie must be willing to unite with Eduard, and that Eduard and the Major leave the house for a time.
(d) She and the Major must be married right away so that she can try to have another child soon.

15. Which of Luciane's "experiments in moral regeneration" goes badly wrong?
(a) Her endeavors to patch up Charlotte and Eduard's relationship.
(b) Her education of a young peasant boy.
(c) Her efforts to introduce a foreign friend into high society.
(d) Her attempt to re-socialize a mad young woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What mistake does Eduard make while leaving the note?

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

3. What is Charlotte and Eduard's son to be named?

4. What decision does Ottilie make that breaks her usual care and good sense?

5. Why is Charlotte agitated by the foreign visitor's tale?

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