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

2. What is the title of the story the foreign visitor tells Charlotte and Ottilie?
(a) "The Passionate Shepherd and Lady."
(b) "The Unfortunate Young Lovers."
(c) "The Wayward Young Neighbors."
(d) "The Sensible Old Couple."

3. Whose observations on the landscape of the estate serve to enrich Charlotte and Ottilie's experience of the land?
(a) The Englishman's.
(b) The Frenchman's
(c) The Italian's.
(d) Herr Mittler's.

4. What event endangers the protagonists of the story?
(a) A blazing house fire.
(b) A river yacht crash.
(c) A carriage robbery.
(d) An attempted murder.

5. What experiment does the foreign visitor's companion try on Charlotte and Ottilie?
(a) The pendulum experiment.
(b) The scales hypothesis.
(c) The leverage trial.
(d) The gravity investigation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom do Otto's facial features resemble?

2. What building does Charlotte decide she and Ottilie will live in for a period of time?

3. What is Eduard's state of mind after Ottilie refuses to be his?

4. What conflicting feelings continuously torment Ottilie?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Describe the circumstances of Ottilie's death.

4. Briefly summarize the story the foreign visitor tells to Charlotte and Ottilie.

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

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

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

8. What does Ottilie decide to embark upon as a career, and why?

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

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

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