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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. In the wake of the tragedy, what is Charlotte and Ottilie's relationship with each other like?
(a) They appear reasonable and good willed, but cannot repair their friendship.
(b) They grow cold and distant, and they constantly plot against one another.
(c) They rekindle their friendship and grow even closer than before.
(d) They walk around in a daze never noticing each other.

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

3. What is the general substance of Ottilie's second journal entry?
(a) The state of Charlotte's marriage.
(b) Her love for Eduard.
(c) The dichotomy of good and evil.
(d) The transience of ownership of art.

4. What artistic activity does the architect plan for Ottilie to be centrally involved in?
(a) Hosting and starring in a pianoforte recital.
(b) Portraying Mary in a tableau of the birth of Jesus.
(c) Exhibiting her artwork at the royal court.
(d) Reciting a series of Petrarchan sonnets.

5. How did Charlotte find out Eduard had joined the military?
(a) She receives a letter from him explaining his decision.
(b) She reads his name and his circumstances in a gazette.
(c) She happens to hear the local gossip while in town.
(d) An old family friend tells her he saw Eduard after a battle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event endangers the protagonists of the story?

2. What is the new house guest's philosophy on education?

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

4. Whose appearance do the painted decorations of the restored building seem to have?

5. Where does Eduard ride to in order to await Ottilie's arrival at the beginning of Part II, Chapter 16?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Charlotte discover Eduard has rejoined the military, and how does she respond to this news?

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

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

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

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

8. Describe the circumstances of Ottilie's death.

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

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

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