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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. When is the only time Ottilie does not take Otto with her?
(a) When she strolls through the woods.
(b) When she walks into town.
(c) When she tidies up her wing of the house.
(d) When she rows out on the lake.

2. What activity of Luciane's, meant to amuse the company, ends up with Luciane looking foolish?
(a) Her idea of a game that involves the whole company.
(b) Her arguments in a carefully staged debate.
(c) Her dance performance in which she is accompanied by a harpist.
(d) Her performance on the guitar and her accompanying singing.

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

4. What effect does the foreign visitor to the estate have on Ottilie, when he expounds upon the uselessness of over improving the land?
(a) Ottilie is disillusioned and in agony.
(b) Ottilie feels offended by the man's presumption.
(c) Ottilie finds herself questioning her design sense.
(d) Ottilie agrees wholeheartedly with the man.

5. What tragedy results from Ottilie's decision to go against what she knows is safe?
(a) Otto drowns in the lake.
(b) Otto is crushed in a fall.
(c) Otto is killed by wolves.
(d) Otto is accidentally poisoned.

Short Answer Questions

1. What portion of the building being restored will receive special attention through painted decorations?

2. What mistake does Eduard make while leaving the note?

3. What faux pas does the foreign visitor's companion notice?

4. Who had encouraged the house guest to come to the estate?

5. What is the house guest's suggested remedy for children who do not follow in their parents' footsteps?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Eduard plan with the Major regarding their relationships with Charlotte and Ottilie?

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

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

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

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

6. How do Eduard, Charlotte, and Ottilie act once they are all living in the same house together again?

7. Where does Eduard go to meet Ottilie, and what are the circumstances of their meeting?

8. What foreign visitor comes to the estate, and how do his views impact Charlotte and Ottilie?

9. What is the schoolmaster's general philosophy on teaching?

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

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