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

2. What thought about Ottilie's future preoccupies Charlotte?
(a) What profession Ottilie will take and when.
(b) Whether Ottilie will forgive Eduard and why.
(c) Whether Ottilie will marry and whom.
(d) When Ottilie will die and how.

3. What do the Major and Eduard first do when they are reunited?
(a) Recall old memories.
(b) Agree to sabotage Charlotte's plan.
(c) Plan their next military campaign.
(d) Go to the inn and get drunk.

4. What two things does Ottilie refuse to do?
(a) Eat and read.
(b) Paint and keep house.
(c) Speak and be Eduard's wife.
(d) Love again and forgive Charlotte.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ottilie die?

2. Whom does Ottilie summon for help as the tragedy unfolds?

3. What is the title of the story the foreign visitor tells Charlotte and Ottilie?

4. What is Ottilie's relationship with the architect like?

5. What is the nature of the solicitor's visit to Charlotte?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the substance of Eduard's proposition to the Major, and the Major's response to it?

2. Summarize the reason for the solicitor's visit to Charlotte, which is related at the beginning of Part II.

3. Which of Luciane's experiments in "moral regeneration" goes wrong, which Charlotte hears about after Luciane leaves the estate?

4. What are Charlotte's views of memorials?

5. What amusement does the Count suggest should occupy Luciane's energies?

6. What plans does the architect have for the church?

7. How does the novel end?

8. What event at the end of Part II, Chapter 8, is saturated with both happiness and grave foreboding, and how?

9. What is the first faux pas the foreign visitor commits, and why is it a social flub?

10. What decision does Ottilie make that she normally never would, and what are the results of it?

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