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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. Which vocation does Ottilie decide she wishes to pursue?
(a) To teach at the boarding school.
(b) To become a great artist and painter.
(c) To become a maid.
(d) To become a governess to a wealthy family.

2. Who had encouraged the house guest to come to the estate?
(a) The General.
(b) The architect.
(c) The Captain.
(d) The Baroness.

3. What event marks the newborn's baptism with foreboding?
(a) The awkward way Charlotte explains Eduard's absence.
(b) The spilling of the holy water.
(c) The sudden death of the clergyman.
(d) The poor turnout for the event at the church.

4. What was the architect's reason for not wishing his drawings to be shown to the whole company, as Luciane had entreated and Ottilie had encouraged?
(a) Even cultivated people handle delicate works of art roughly.
(b) He is modest to the point of embarrassment about his accomplishments.
(c) Another guest expresses his desire to show his own collection of sculpture.
(d) He fears his plagiarism of the original drawings will be discovered.

5. What is the principle task of the household Ottilie has undertaken?
(a) Caring for Otto.
(b) Keeping the household monies.
(c) Answering all letters coming to the house.
(d) Organizing the serving staff.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Luciane enjoy doing with her many articles of clothing?

2. What new feature of Eduard's character makes him more like Ottilie?

3. What gift do Charlotte and Ottilie give the architect?

4. What two things does Ottilie refuse to do?

5. Who helps decorate the building which has been designated for restoration?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the general substance of Ottilie's first journal entry, at the end of Part II, Chapter 2?

2. How does Eduard respond to the tragedy involving Ottilie and Otto?

3. Whom does Eduard meet when he walks through his own estate, and what is the significance of their meeting?

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

5. What are Charlotte's views of memorials?

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

7. What does Ottilie decide to embark upon as a career, and why?

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

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

10. Briefly summarize the story the foreign visitor tells to Charlotte and Ottilie.

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