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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 is notable about the letters Eduard writes to Ottilie?
(a) The letters always come back in the post as "undeliverable."
(b) Eduard also writes responses and signs them with Ottilie's name.
(c) The content of the letters is illegible, mad gibberish.
(d) Charlotte intercepts the letters and answers them in Ottilie's handwriting.

2. What does Eduard's note demand of Charlotte?
(a) That Charlotte send Ottilie to live with her great aunt.
(b) That Charlotte keep Ottilie at the estate and not send her away.
(c) That Charlotte treat Ottilie as an equal, not as a lesser relative.
(d) That Charlotte move away from the estate and live as a widow.

3. What general plans do Eduard and the captain have for the estate?
(a) Tearing down the old stables and erect new ones.
(b) Renovating the main house to accommodate Eduard's growing brood.
(c) Improving the landscaping on a large scale.
(d) Cleaning up the grounds and house and prepare the estate for sale.

4. What personality trait is notable about Ottilie?
(a) She is arrogant but somehow still likeable.
(b) She talks rapidly and profusely about nothing of consequence.
(c) She understands the needs of others intuitively.
(d) She is very energetic but cannot seem to finish any project.

5. What very capable person, who takes over the work of the landscape improvements, is the Captain very pleased with?
(a) The gardener.
(b) The architect.
(c) The parson.
(d) The beggar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the peasant girl who attaches herself to Ottilie?

2. How does Ottilie respond to Charlotte's mention of the Captain potentially getting married?

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

4. What is the name of Charlotte's daughter?

5. What do the main characters decide to do with the three lakes on Eduard's estate?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What sudden action does Eduard take after the Captain leaves the household?

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

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

8. Who is Herr Mittler, and what do Charlotte and Eduard ask for his help with?

9. What does Mittler do regarding Charlotte and Eduard's tense situation?

10. How does Ottilie and Charlotte's relationship change in Part I, Chapter 17?

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