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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Chapters 13-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What becomes the focus of Eduard's efforts regarding the landscape improvements around the estate?
(a) Obeying the Captain's directions regarding the precise placement of decorative elements.
(b) Privileging Ottilie's joy and comfort in the landscape.
(c) Conceding to the mason's professional opinion of the architecture.
(d) Accommodating Charlotte's desired shapes and tones in the gardening.

2. How does Eduard view his previous feelings of love, before he loved Ottilie?
(a) As necessary endeavors.
(b) As mere wastes of time.
(c) As practice for his future seduction of Ottilie.
(d) As the pinnacles of human feeling.

3. Which unexpected visitor arrives during the performance of the artistic activity planned by the architect?
(a) The headmistress.
(b) The schoolmaster.
(c) The mason.
(d) The Captain.

4. What personal item does Eduard request Ottilie stop wearing?
(a) A handkerchief embroidered by Charlotte.
(b) A pair of gloves in kid leather.
(c) A shawl knitted by her mother.
(d) A miniature portrait of her father.

5. What does Eduard's note demand of Charlotte?
(a) That Charlotte treat Ottilie as an equal, not as a lesser relative.
(b) That Charlotte send Ottilie to live with her great aunt.
(c) That Charlotte keep Ottilie at the estate and not send her away.
(d) That Charlotte move away from the estate and live as a widow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Eduard's plan for his own future?

2. What is the general content of the postscript of the headmistress's letter to the mistress of the estate?

3. What event precipitates the arrival of Charlotte's daughter at the estate?

4. Whose appearance do the painted decorations of the restored building seem to have?

5. What is the house guest's suggested remedy for children who do not follow in their parents' footsteps?

(see the answer key)

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