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

2. Where does Eduard wait, at least for a little while, while the Major relays Eduard's plan to Charlotte?
(a) The chapel.
(b) The inn.
(c) The farmstead.
(d) The pavilion.

3. 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 finds herself questioning her design sense.
(b) Ottilie agrees wholeheartedly with the man.
(c) Ottilie feels offended by the man's presumption.
(d) Ottilie is disillusioned and in agony.

4. Which representation of an artistic work results in the most applause for Luciane?
(a) Handel's "Messiah."
(b) Jan Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring."
(c) Mozart's "The Magic Flute."
(d) Gerald Terborch's "Instruction Paternelle."

5. What building does the architect persuade Charlotte to restore?
(a) The boathouse.
(b) The church.
(c) The pavilion.
(d) The stables.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ottilie react in the wake of the tragedy?

2. What is Eduard's state of mind after Ottilie refuses to be his?

3. What is the general content of Ottilie's fourth journal entry?

4. What is the premise of the story told by the foreign visitor?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the general substance of Ottilie's fourth journal entry?

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

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

4. How does Ottilie respond to the tragedy involving herself and Otto?

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

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

7. What is problematic about Luciane's interactions with other people, and what is one example of this?

8. Describe the circumstances of Ottilie's death.

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

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

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