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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 personal item does Eduard request Ottilie stop wearing?
2. Whom does the master of the estate propose come to live with himself and his wife?
3. What is the name of the peasant girl who attaches herself to Ottilie?
4. What subject do Eduard and his male guest discuss in the night?
5. Whom does Eduard send to speak with Ottilie in private?
Short Essay Questions
1. Summarize the events which occur on Ottilie's birthday.
2. How do the four protagonists' relationships change after Eduard evinces a passion for Ottilie?
3. What does Mittler do regarding Charlotte and Eduard's tense situation?
4. How does Ottilie and Charlotte's relationship change in Part I, Chapter 17?
5. Why does Charlotte object to Eduard's proposal of bringing the Captain to live at their estate?
6. What does the Baroness discover about Eduard, and how does she react to it?
7. Describe Eduard's character, as the narrator paints it early in the novel.
8. Describe Eduard's estate and his, the Captain's, and Charlotte's general plans for it.
9. Summarize the concept of "elective affinities," and describe how the Captain, Eduard, and Charlotte formulate their discussion of this concept.
10. What counteroffer does Charlotte make to Eduard's proposal of the Captain's visit?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Choose three symbolic objects, characters, places, or events in the novel and discuss their significance to the plot, character development, thematic evolution, and the narrative as a whole. Some examples of symbolism include: Ottilie's miniature portrait of her father; the crystal goblet engraved with "EO;" the moss hut and pavilion; the various celebrations for characters' birthdays; Eduard's decision to rejoin the military; the events at Otto's baptism; Ottilie's Moroccan chest; the fireworks at the lake; the relationship between the Count and the Baroness; the contract; the restoration of the chapel; Otto's death; Charlotte's changes to the burial grounds in the churchyard; and so on. What do your selected symbols mean for the characters in the novel and do they differ from how you the reader interpret them in your analysis of the narrative as a whole?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss at least two specific situations in the novel (these could be events, individual characters' reflections and thoughts, discussions between characters, or instances in which something symbolic is introduced by the narrator or a character) in which the themes of marriage, love, fidelity, passion, and/or adultery play a significant role. What differing views are provided of the institution of marriage (whether traditional, cultural, religious, or personal), and which characters express which views? How does the nature and origin of Charlotte and Eduard's marriage influence the development of the novel's plot? How are each main character's views on marriage significant to the development of the plot, of each character, and of the themes of marriage, fidelity, love, passion, and adultery?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the role of Herr Mittler and the theme of mediation in the novel. What is Herr Mittler's role, and how does he "play his part" by interacting in specific ways with the other characters? How does the narrator act as a mediator between the reader and the characters, plot, and moral of the story? Mediation means to "come between" things--are there any other mediating forces in the novel, besides Mittler, such as other characters, events, settings, objects, ideas, and so on?
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