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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event endangers the protagonists of the story?
(a) An attempted murder.
(b) A blazing house fire.
(c) A carriage robbery.
(d) A river yacht crash.

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

3. 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.

4. What does Charlotte warn Ottilie about, during their discussion of Ottilie's preferred vocation?
(a) The dangers of letting go of the object of one's passion.
(b) The idea that her world can once again be make whole.
(c) The impulse toward suicide, which is sinful and perilous.
(d) The desire to run away and start a new life, which is difficult.

5. 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) He fears his plagiarism of the original drawings will be discovered.
(c) Even cultivated people handle delicate works of art roughly.
(d) He is modest to the point of embarrassment about his accomplishments.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. What event marks the newborn's baptism with foreboding?
(a) The poor turnout for the event at the church.
(b) The spilling of the holy water.
(c) The awkward way Charlotte explains Eduard's absence.
(d) The sudden death of the clergyman.

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

14. How does Ottilie die?
(a) She convinces Nanni to poison her.
(b) She hangs herself.
(c) She jumps to her death from a cliff.
(d) She starves herself.

15. What is the long-term plan of the new house guest?
(a) To marry and to take over the management of the boarding school.
(b) To find a wife and settle down to a farmer's lifestyle.
(c) To travel the world and write a memoir.
(d) To take a high class position at the royal court.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What two things does Ottilie refuse to do?

3. To what does the narrator compare the common themes running through Ottilie's journals?

4. What is the house guest's suggested remedy for children who do not follow in their parents' footsteps?

5. Who is the Major?

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