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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 is the general substance of the note Eduard writes at the place where he awaits Ottilie?
(a) Whether Ottilie can be his, and whether he can see her in person.
(b) It is a suicide note full of remorse and shame.
(c) Eduard threatens Ottilie if she does not capitulate to him.
(d) The note details his baroque plans to spirit Ottilie away from the estate.

2. Whom do Otto's facial features resemble?
(a) Ottilie and Charlotte.
(b) Eduard and the Captain.
(c) Charlotte and Eduard.
(d) The Captain and Ottilie.

3. When Eduard leaves the place where he had been waiting for the Major, where does he go?
(a) The pavilion.
(b) The main house.
(c) The lakeshore.
(d) The chapel.

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) He is modest to the point of embarrassment about his accomplishments.
(b) He fears his plagiarism of the original drawings will be discovered.
(c) Even cultivated people handle delicate works of art roughly.
(d) Another guest expresses his desire to show his own collection of sculpture.

5. What is the general substance of Ottilie's first journal entry?
(a) Her own role in the running of the household.
(b) The nature of portraiture and other memorials.
(c) The significance of Charlotte's silences.
(d) The contradictions inherent in social intercourse.

Short Answer Questions

1. When is the only time Ottilie does not take Otto with her?

2. What activity of Luciane's, meant to amuse the company, ends up with Luciane looking foolish?

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

4. What is Eduard's plan for his own future?

5. Whom does Eduard meet unexpectedly as he walks?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is the nature of the "pendulum experiment" that one of the foreign visitors proposes, why does he propose it, and what are its results?

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

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

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