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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 event does the captain suggest must be celebrated in a special manner?
2. What language do Charlotte and Ottilie speak when they are alone?
3. How did the master of the estate grow up?
4. What provokes Eduard to cry out that Ottilie loves him?
5. What does Eduard convince Ottilie of regarding Charlotte and/or the Captain?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Eduard's and the Captain's interactions with members of the lower social classes.
2. What sudden action does Eduard take after the Captain leaves the household?
3. How does Ottilie occupy herself after Charlotte and Eduard's confrontation and Eduard's subsequent actions?
4. Briefly summarize the story behind Eduard and Charlotte's marriage.
5. What does Eduard decide to do to further his relationship with Ottilie, and how does this attempt end up?
6. Describe Eduard's character, as the narrator paints it early in the novel.
7. Summarize the letters from the headmistress and the schoolmaster.
8. Summarize the events which occur on Ottilie's birthday.
9. What is the substance of Charlotte and Eduard's argument at the beginning of Part I, Chapter 16, and how is it resolved?
10. How does Ottilie and Charlotte's relationship change in Part I, Chapter 17?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 3
Examine the themes of embodiment, physicality, sexuality, and sensuality that are present in the novel. How do the characters' physical presence sometimes influence the thoughts, feelings, and actions of other characters? What is the significance of inanimate objects such as letters, contracts, and trinkets embodying certain characters? Why might the narrator find it important to note, in Part II, Chapter 13, that just before Otto dies Ottilie experiences two distinct moments of true sensuality? How do Eduard and Charlotte interact each other in Part I, Chapter 11 by imagining their lovers embodied in each other? What episodes of, or references to, frank sexuality and sensuality do you think are important to an understanding of the novel?
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