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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 Ottilie's relationship with the architect like?
(a) She is madly in love with him.
(b) She treats him as if he were her elder brother.
(c) She disagrees with him about crucial design elements.
(d) She easily gets frustrated with his incompetence.

2. What is the nature of the solicitor's visit to Charlotte?
(a) The solicitor's errand is to serve Charlotte with a court summons from a merchant in the village.
(b) The solicitor comes to advise Charlotte with regards to her pending divorce from Eduard.
(c) The solicitor's client has decided to sue Charlotte for a large sum related to damaged property.
(d) The solicitor and his client disagree with Charlotte's decision to move the graves in the churchyard.

3. Whom does Ottilie summon for help as the tragedy unfolds?
(a) The Major.
(b) The doctor.
(c) Charlotte.
(d) Nanni.

4. What conflicting feelings continuously torment Ottilie?
(a) Fear and delight.
(b) Living and dying.
(c) Wealth and poverty.
(d) Anger and acceptance.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which character comes more into the forefront of Charlotte and Ottilie's life after Eduard's departure?

3. What mistake does Eduard make while leaving the note?

4. What are Eduard's plans for Charlotte's future?

5. What, in general, describes Luciane's personality?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are Charlotte's views of memorials?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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