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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do Eduard and Charlotte disagree strongly about in the wake of the frightening event during the festivities?
2. What does Eduard's note demand of Charlotte?
3. What event does the captain suggest must be celebrated in a special manner?
4. What frightening event mars the celebration Eduard had so carefully planned?
5. Whom does Eduard send to speak with Ottilie in private?
Short Essay Questions
1. What changes in the Captain's future situation come to light in Part I, Chapter 14?
2. Describe Eduard's estate and his, the Captain's, and Charlotte's general plans for it.
3. What does Eduard decide to do to further his relationship with Ottilie, and how does this attempt end up?
4. Summarize the events which occur on Ottilie's birthday.
5. Summarize the concept of "elective affinities," and describe how the Captain, Eduard, and Charlotte formulate their discussion of this concept.
6. Why does Charlotte object to Eduard's proposal of bringing the Captain to live at their estate?
7. Who is Herr Mittler, and what do Charlotte and Eduard ask for his help with?
8. How does Ottilie act around the others when she arrives at the estate?
9. What sudden action does Eduard take after the Captain leaves the household?
10. How does Ottilie occupy herself after Charlotte and Eduard's confrontation and Eduard's subsequent actions?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Examine Ottilie's character as it evolves over the entire course of the novel. What is Ottilie like in the beginning of the book, in the middle, and by the end? How does she express her thoughts and feelings? What sort of language does she use, and how does the narrator describe her directly and indirectly? What notable actions does Ottilie take through the course of the novel, and what motivates these actions? How are your perceptions of her shaped by Ottilie herself, by other characters, and by the narrator?
Essay Topic 2
What roles do religion, faith, God, and fate or predestination play in the novel? How do each of the four main characters seem to approach these things in their daily lives and in their interactions with one another? What is the significance of the restoration of the village church and chapel and of the decorations within? What significance does Otto's baptism and the words and actions of the clergymen involved have to the general themes of faith and religion in the text? How is Nanni's accident at the end of the novel viewed and treated by the people of the village. For the villagers, what do Nanni and Ottilie become? How is Ottilie's character formed in relation to the symbols of specifically the Christian religion?
Essay Topic 3
Apply the principle of "elective affinities," as discussed by Eduard, Charlotte, and the Captain in Part I, Chapter 4, to the novel in its entirety. Provide a short summary of the essence of the idea of elective affinities: what is it, and in which disciplines is it particularly useful? How do Eduard, Charlotte, and the Captain understand and explain this principle? Where do you find this principle most present in the various relationships between the four protagonists? Do you find aspects of elective affinities present in any of the minor characters, or in any of the portions of the novel that are not strictly related to the plot (such as letters, journals, and other stories)?
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