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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. What act of submissiveness does Charlotte warn Ottilie against?
(a) Deferring to one's host in conversation.
(b) Lowering one's eyes before royalty.
(c) Stooping to pick up something dropped by a man.
(d) Walking slowly to accommodate the pace of the elderly.

2. What is the object of the insult Eduard receives indirectly from the Captain?
(a) Eduard's flute playing abilities.
(b) Eduard's intelligence and education.
(c) Eduard's family tree.
(d) Eduard's design sense.

3. What does Eduard focus on in his solitude?
(a) His passion for Ottilie.
(b) His business prospects.
(c) His desire for death.
(d) His quarrels with Mittler.

4. What service does Ottilie volunteer to do for Eduard?
(a) Make the final copy of the farmstead sale contract.
(b) Finish the lengthy inventory of the household.
(c) Repair his many torn articles of clothing.
(d) Finalize the design of the chapel.

5. How is the female guest of the estate related to the mistress of the estate?
(a) She is her step-daughter.
(b) She is her young cousin.
(c) She is her daughter.
(d) She is her niece.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does the master of the estate propose come to live with himself and his wife?

2. What event does the captain suggest must be celebrated in a special manner?

3. What building do the companions find, with pleasure, that can easily hold all four of them?

4. What event leads Eduard to begin to be physically attracted to Ottilie?

5. In what activities do Charlotte and Ottilie engage the village girls?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what reason does the foursome decide to build a pavilion?

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

3. How do the four protagonists' relationships change after Eduard evinces a passion for Ottilie?

4. Describe Eduard's estate and his, the Captain's, and Charlotte's general plans for it.

5. Describe Eduard's character, as the narrator paints it early in the novel.

6. Where on the estate do the four protagonists increase their work, and for what coming occasion?

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

8. What changes in the Captain's future situation come to light in Part I, Chapter 14?

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

10. What is the general substance of the mason's address during the ceremony of the foundation stone of the pavilion?

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