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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the general substance of the note Eduard writes at the place where he awaits Ottilie?
(a) Eduard threatens Ottilie if she does not capitulate to him.
(b) The note details his baroque plans to spirit Ottilie away from the estate.
(c) Whether Ottilie can be his, and whether he can see her in person.
(d) It is a suicide note full of remorse and shame.

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

7. What decision does Ottilie make that breaks her usual care and good sense?
(a) To lay Otto down on the shoreline and walk alone.
(b) To leave Otto in the care of a young village girl.
(c) To take Otto up a very steep and narrow cliffside path.
(d) To row across the lake with Otto aboard.

8. What new feature of Eduard's character makes him more like Ottilie?
(a) He eats less and less.
(b) His handwriting becomes more like Ottilie's.
(c) He loses his voice.
(d) He suffers from one-sided headaches.

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

10. 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) Ottilie must never be turned out of their house but can never socialize with them again.
(d) She and the Major must be married right away so that she can try to have another child soon.

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

12. What is Ottilie's relationship with the architect like?
(a) She treats him as if he were her elder brother.
(b) She is madly in love with him.
(c) She easily gets frustrated with his incompetence.
(d) She disagrees with him about crucial design elements.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the premise of the story told by the foreign visitor?

3. Upon what date does the completion of the restoration of the building occur?

4. Whose appearance do the painted decorations of the restored building seem to have?

5. Whose observations on the landscape of the estate serve to enrich Charlotte and Ottilie's experience of the land?

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