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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Eduard plan to celebrate the finishing of the landscape improvements, as well as to show his affection for Ottilie?
(a) With a fireworks show.
(b) With a magnificent feast.
(c) By absconding with Ottilie.
(d) By giving gifts to the guests.

2. To whom does the captain find himself irresistibly attracted?
(a) Ottilie.
(b) Charlotte.
(c) Marianne.
(d) Nanni.

3. How did the master of the estate grow up?
(a) Spoiled; he got everything he wanted.
(b) Lonely; he made no friends.
(c) Impoverished; he lived on the streets.
(d) Ignored; he was the youngest of many siblings.

4. What activity are the married couple primarily engaged in at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Preparing for a year long tour of Europe.
(b) Considering applications for new household staff.
(c) Deciding whether to enlarge the home itself.
(d) Improving the landscape of their estate.

5. What letter does the Captain keep secret from his friends?
(a) One from an officer which reactivates the Captain's military service.
(b) One from Ottilie to Eduard that is salacious in its content.
(c) One from the Count containing a most promising job offer.
(d) One from the mason to the architect concerning the fleecing of Eduard's estate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What very capable person, who takes over the work of the landscape improvements, is the Captain very pleased with?

2. How do Eduard and Ottilie unexpectedly prove their compatibility with one another?

3. What activity does the male guest propose to his hosts upon his first look at the lands around the estate?

4. What does Eduard's note demand of Charlotte?

5. Where have the two young women mentioned in Part I, Chapter 1, been living for some years?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Eduard explain to Mittler how he feels and acts?

2. How does Ottilie act around the others when she arrives at the estate?

3. What confusion does Eduard experience, after conducting the Count to a midnight visit with the Baroness?

4. What does Eduard decide to do to further his relationship with Ottilie, and how does this attempt end up?

5. What event leads to a sexually charged encounter between Charlotte and the Captain, and how does Charlotte react to it?

6. Summarize the letters from the headmistress and the schoolmaster.

7. How does Ottilie occupy herself after Charlotte and Eduard's confrontation and Eduard's subsequent actions?

8. What counteroffer does Charlotte make to Eduard's proposal of the Captain's visit?

9. Briefly summarize the story behind Eduard and Charlotte's marriage.

10. What does the Baroness discover about Eduard, and how does she react to it?

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