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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 specific question of Eduard's is Ottilie able to answer with a nod in the affirmative?
(a) Would she like to return to the boarding school?
(b) Would she would like to live with her great aunt?
(c) Would she like to go back to Charlotte?
(d) Will she consent to be Eduard's wife?

2. What does Luciane enjoy doing with her many articles of clothing?
(a) Giving everything away and wearing only modest, inexpensive fabrics.
(b) Saving up the best outfits for special occasions.
(c) Dressing up as fanciful characters.
(d) Putting them in storage and never wearing them.

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

4. Why does Ottilie avoid a path by the side of the lake?
(a) She has been warned by the townsfolk that the path is cursed.
(b) The path reminds her of her lost lover.
(c) The place fills her with dread and she gets a headache.
(d) She once fell from that path and hurt herself.

5. What is the house guest's suggested remedy for children who do not follow in their parents' footsteps?
(a) Threatenting to disown the child unless he or she capitulates.
(b) Punishing the child until he or she agrees to be like his or her parents.
(c) Making the child an equal partner in the parent's endeavors.
(d) Allowing the child to follow his or her own unique path in life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what, to Ottilie, does her future rest?

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

3. What tragedy results from Ottilie's decision to go against what she knows is safe?

4. What, in general, describes Luciane's personality?

5. To what does the narrator compare the common themes running through Ottilie's journals?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Charlotte respond to the tragedy involving Ottilie and Otto?

6. How does the novel end?

7. How does Charlotte and Ottilie's relationship change after Otto's death?

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

9. Briefly describe Luciane, Charlotte's daughter from her first marriage.

10. Describe the circumstances of Ottilie's death.

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