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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 do Eduard and Charlotte act in front of the others the morning after they sleep together?
(a) As if they are proud to have reaffirmed their love.
(b) As if they are ashamed and contrite of their actions.
(c) As if nothing has passed between them the night before.
(d) As if they are suspicious of the thoughts of others.

2. What does Eduard propose to sell to pay for the main project undertaken by the household?
(a) The chapel in the village.
(b) The main house itself.
(c) The southern portion of land.
(d) The farmstead in the woods.

3. What activity does the male guest propose to his hosts upon his first look at the lands around the estate?
(a) That the trio return to the comfort of the main house.
(b) That the trio make a journey to the court.
(c) That the trio make a detailed survey of the land.
(d) That the trio hire a friend of his for the gardening.

4. What prevents Eduard from going through with his plan to keep Ottilie always near him?
(a) Eduard is unable to secure passage into England for himself and Ottilie.
(b) Ottilie's efforts to distract Charlotte are so transparent that Charlotte suspects them both.
(c) The moss hut begins to crumble and fall apart and is not comfortable as a love-nest.
(d) The first letters between him and Ottilie fall and are picked up by others.

5. What does the male guest criticize about the estate?
(a) The general lack of aptitude of the servants.
(b) The master's indecent liberties taken with the serving-girls.
(c) The mistress's planning and layout of the improvements.
(d) The boring, humdrum nature of the surrounding area.

Short Answer Questions

1. What habit does Eduard change as a result of Ottilie's presence and influence?

2. What is the object of the insult Eduard receives indirectly from the Captain?

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

4. What significant physical condition is revealed about Charlotte in Part I, Chapter 18?

5. What is one subject of the guests and hosts' conversation during the group's first dinner together?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Part I, Chapter 6, what activity becomes the clear marker of the shifting compatibilities of the four protagonists?

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

4. Why does Charlotte object to Eduard's proposal of bringing the Captain to live at their estate?

5. What is the substance of Charlotte and Eduard's argument at the beginning of Part I, Chapter 16, and how is it resolved?

6. Summarize the event which results in Eduard finding himself attracted to Ottilie.

7. Describe Eduard's and the Captain's interactions with members of the lower social classes.

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

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

10. How does Eduard change in the wake of his realization of his passion for Ottilie?

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