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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the Major?
(a) Formerly the Captain.
(b) A cousin of Eduard's.
(c) A former flame of the Baroness's.
(d) A friend of the Count's.

2. What is the new house guest's philosophy on education?
(a) Boys should be taught to be servants, and girls should be taught to be mothers.
(b) The best way to teach young people is through rote recitation.
(c) Learning does not stop when an individual leaves the schoolhouse.
(d) Girls are more apt to learn new things, while boys are more apt to retain knowledge.

3. What is Charlotte and Eduard's son to be named?
(a) Otto.
(b) Edmund.
(c) Johann.
(d) Heinrich.

4. How did Charlotte find out Eduard had joined the military?
(a) She receives a letter from him explaining his decision.
(b) She reads his name and his circumstances in a gazette.
(c) She happens to hear the local gossip while in town.
(d) An old family friend tells her he saw Eduard after a battle.

5. How does Charlotte respond to the Major's hopeful question about their future together?
(a) "All of us but one deserve the future you hold so dear."
(b) "We have not deserved to be unhappy, but neither have we deserved to be happy together."
(c) "You and Ottilie may still have a future; Eduard and I have nothing but our past."
(d) "When my heart is no longer heavy, then we shall see if it can once more be happy."

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

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

8. Upon what date does the completion of the restoration of the building occur?
(a) The eve of the Captain's birthday.
(b) The anniversary of Ottilie's arrival at the estate.
(c) The eve of Eduard's birthday.
(d) The anniversary of Eduard and Charlotte's wedding.

9. Under what condition does Ottilie feel she could forgive herself?
(a) If Charlotte and Eduard also forgive her.
(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 she considers the tragedy a blessing in disguise.

10. How does Ottilie respond to Eduard's note?
(a) By fainting dead away and waking in a trance.
(b) She flies into his arms and they kiss passionately.
(c) She begins to hotly berate Eduard for his foolish choices.
(d) With an unusual but familiar gesture that is clearly a refusal.

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

12. What is the general substance of Ottilie's second journal entry?
(a) The dichotomy of good and evil.
(b) The transience of ownership of art.
(c) The state of Charlotte's marriage.
(d) Her love for Eduard.

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What new feature of Eduard's character makes him more like Ottilie?

2. Which unexpected visitor arrives during the performance of the artistic activity planned by the architect?

3. How does Ottilie die?

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

5. What specific form of memorializing does Charlotte admit having an aversion to?

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