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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. Where does Eduard ride to in order to await Ottilie's arrival at the beginning of Part II, Chapter 16?
(a) The farmstead.
(b) The lakeshore.
(c) The pavilion.
(d) The inn.

2. What is the general content of Ottilie's fourth journal entry?
(a) The problems inherent in her passion for Eduard.
(b) Her own feelings about her relationship with Luciane, specifically.
(c) The necessities that keep women tied to the domestic sphere.
(d) The necessity of, and arbitrary nature of, engaging with others in social settings.

3. How does Charlotte respond to the Major's hopeful question about their future together?
(a) "When my heart is no longer heavy, then we shall see if it can once more be happy."
(b) "We have not deserved to be unhappy, but neither have we deserved to be happy together."
(c) "All of us but one deserve the future you hold so dear."
(d) "You and Ottilie may still have a future; Eduard and I have nothing but our past."

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

5. What thought about Ottilie's future preoccupies Charlotte?
(a) Whether Ottilie will marry and whom.
(b) What profession Ottilie will take and when.
(c) Whether Ottilie will forgive Eduard and why.
(d) When Ottilie will die and how.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose observations on the landscape of the estate serve to enrich Charlotte and Ottilie's experience of the land?

2. What specific form of memorializing does Charlotte admit having an aversion to?

3. What building does the architect persuade Charlotte to restore?

4. Whom do Otto's facial features resemble?

5. What tragedy results from Ottilie's decision to go against what she knows is safe?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the circumstances of Ottilie's death.

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

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

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

5. How does the novel end?

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

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

8. What are Charlotte's views of memorials?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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