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

2. How does Eduard envision Otto will be raised?
(a) Ottilie will raise him, and Eduard will be his father in truth.
(b) Charlotte will raise him, and the Major will act as his father.
(c) Eduard will be a very close, caring father for his son.
(d) Charlotte and Ottilie will share the burden of caring for him.

3. To what does the narrator compare the common themes running through Ottilie's journals?
(a) To a novel with a specific trope repeating through it.
(b) To a naval rope with a single strand of red thread.
(c) To a garden in which patterns of hedges repeat themselves.
(d) To a garment with a regular weave of fine fabric.

4. What is the long-term plan of the new house guest?
(a) To find a wife and settle down to a farmer's lifestyle.
(b) To marry and to take over the management of the boarding school.
(c) To take a high class position at the royal court.
(d) To travel the world and write a memoir.

5. What signal does Eduard arrange with the Major to notify him of his plan's success?
(a) The shrill blast of a trumpet.
(b) Smoke signals from a fire on the ridge.
(c) Cannon fire or fireworks.
(d) A messenger boy sent on a horse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What proposition does Eduard make to the Major?

2. Who had encouraged the house guest to come to the estate?

3. What does Charlotte agree to, in the midst of the tragedy?

4. What event endangers the protagonists of the story?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Eduard plan with the Major regarding their relationships with Charlotte and Ottilie?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What foreign visitor comes to the estate, and how do his views impact Charlotte and Ottilie?

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

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