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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 event precipitates the arrival of Charlotte's daughter at the estate?
(a) The birth of Charlotte and Eduard's first child.
(b) Luciane has been kicked out of the boarding school.
(c) Luciane's engagement to a wealthy young man.
(d) Ottilie's death and her memorial services.

2. What new feature of Eduard's character makes him more like Ottilie?
(a) He eats less and less.
(b) He suffers from one-sided headaches.
(c) He loses his voice.
(d) His handwriting becomes more like Ottilie's.

3. What are Eduard's plans for Charlotte's future?
(a) She will keep the estate running with the help of the Major.
(b) She will die alone for her sins.
(c) She and Eduard will rekindle their love for one another.
(d) She and Ottilie will leave the estate in order to travel.

4. What motion does Ottilie make that distinctly translates her desires for the future?
(a) Seizing Eduard's and Charlotte's hands and bringing them together.
(b) Covering her face in her hands and dressing in a nun's black habit.
(c) Gesturing toward the cliff face and indicating she will jump off.
(d) Going to the Major and kneeling submissively before him.

5. What building does Charlotte decide she and Ottilie will live in for a period of time?
(a) The pavilion.
(b) The moss hut.
(c) The chapel.
(d) The servant's quarters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What decision does Ottilie make that breaks her usual care and good sense?

2. What is Ottilie's relationship with the architect like?

3. Why is Charlotte agitated by the foreign visitor's tale?

4. What artistic activity does the architect plan for Ottilie to be centrally involved in?

5. What is the house guest's suggested remedy for children who do not follow in their parents' footsteps?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Charlotte's views of memorials?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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