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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 is the premise of the story told by the foreign visitor?
2. What does Luciane enjoy doing with her many articles of clothing?
3. What event marks the newborn's baptism with foreboding?
4. What activity does the Count suggest would benefit from Luciane's personality?
5. What two things does Ottilie refuse to do?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are Charlotte's views of memorials?
2. How does the novel end?
3. What plans does the architect have for the church?
4. How does Charlotte respond to the tragedy involving Ottilie and Otto?
5. What amusement does the Count suggest should occupy Luciane's energies?
6. What is the schoolmaster's general philosophy on teaching?
7. Briefly describe Luciane, Charlotte's daughter from her first marriage.
8. What does Eduard plan with the Major regarding their relationships with Charlotte and Ottilie?
9. How does Ottilie respond to the tragedy involving herself and Otto?
10. How do Eduard, Charlotte, and Ottilie act once they are all living in the same house together again?
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
Address the question of the "moral of the story": does the novel possess a clear, concise moral message? Do contradictions and problems exist in the novel that could complicate the moral message of the novel? What is the relationship between religion and morality? Does the narrator, through tone or word choice, appear to either pass judgment or encourage readers to judge characters and their actions? Are there problems, as a reader and critical reader of the novel, in forming moral judgments on specific characters?
Essay Topic 3
Examine the role of human beings in shaping the natural landscape. What do the four protagonists use the land for? How do they view their use of it, and the general purpose the landscape has? Describe their relationship to the land in terms of the utilitarian, the picturesque, the beautiful, and/or the sublime? What does nature seem to symbolize for each character, and what is the significance of this symbolism? How might a reader interpret the protagonists' use of and relation to the land as a statement by Goethe about human interactions with nature in his own time and place?
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