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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What experiment does the foreign visitor's companion try on Charlotte and Ottilie?
(a) The leverage trial.
(b) The pendulum experiment.
(c) The gravity investigation.
(d) The scales hypothesis.

3. What is the title of the story the foreign visitor tells Charlotte and Ottilie?
(a) "The Passionate Shepherd and Lady."
(b) "The Sensible Old Couple."
(c) "The Wayward Young Neighbors."
(d) "The Unfortunate Young Lovers."

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

5. Who "shudders in horror" at the tragedy and why?
(a) The Major because he sees his own likeness in the dead child.
(b) Charlotte because she cannot even imagine the tragedy.
(c) Ottilie because she feels she is at fault for the tragedy.
(d) Eduard because he knows Ottilie may have died too.

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

7. Whose observations on the landscape of the estate serve to enrich Charlotte and Ottilie's experience of the land?
(a) The Italian's.
(b) The Frenchman's
(c) The Englishman's.
(d) Herr Mittler's.

8. 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.

9. What is the principle task of the household Ottilie has undertaken?
(a) Answering all letters coming to the house.
(b) Caring for Otto.
(c) Keeping the household monies.
(d) Organizing the serving staff.

10. What signal does Eduard arrange with the Major to notify him of his plan's success?
(a) A messenger boy sent on a horse.
(b) The shrill blast of a trumpet.
(c) Smoke signals from a fire on the ridge.
(d) Cannon fire or fireworks.

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

12. 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 pavilion.
(c) The inn.
(d) The farmstead.

13. Under what condition does Ottilie feel she could forgive herself?
(a) If she replays the tragedy over in her head enough times to purge her guilt.
(b) If she considers the tragedy a blessing in disguise.
(c) If she renounces her passion for Eduard completely.
(d) If Charlotte and Eduard also forgive her.

14. When Eduard leaves the place where he had been waiting for the Major, where does he go?
(a) The main house.
(b) The chapel.
(c) The pavilion.
(d) The lakeshore.

15. What artistic activity does the architect plan for Ottilie to be centrally involved in?
(a) Reciting a series of Petrarchan sonnets.
(b) Hosting and starring in a pianoforte recital.
(c) Portraying Mary in a tableau of the birth of Jesus.
(d) Exhibiting her artwork at the royal court.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had encouraged the house guest to come to the estate?

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

3. Where does Eduard go once he is honorably discharged from the military?

4. What does the narrator consider to be the conflicting sides of Luciane's character?

5. How does Ottilie die?

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