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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapters 13-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the female guest find disagreeable in Eduard?
(a) His apparent passion for Ottilie.
(b) His treatment of Charlotte in front of guests.
(c) His inability to carry on rational conversation.
(d) His lack of detail in the landscape planning.

2. What do the Captain and Charlotte resolve to do regarding the landscape improvements?
(a) Place the entire endeavor on hold until winter is over.
(b) Use their new landscaping expertise to begin their own designing business.
(c) Hurry the work so that Eduard's energies will be more properly restrained.
(d) Expand the project to use up their extra household funds.

3. What incident prompts the captain and Charlotte to kiss?
(a) Eduard and the captain duel over Ottilie's affections.
(b) The captain kisses Charlotte to thank her for securing him a job.
(c) Charlotte confesses her dark desires to the captain.
(d) The captain gets the boat stuck and carries Charlotte to safety.

4. What incites Eduard to make a passionate visit to Charlotte?
(a) The realization that he is not yet a father.
(b) The drunken dare of Eduard's male guest.
(c) The idea that making love to Charlotte will cement his desire for her.
(d) The thought of Ottilie working on a project of Eduard's.

5. What does Ottilie set in the foundation stone with the other peoples' offerings?
(a) A ring her mother gave her.
(b) A miniature portrait of her father.
(c) A letter from the schoolmaster.
(d) A lock of her own hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is married to the owner of the estate?

2. What about the contract Ottilie copied does Eduard find singular and astonishing?

3. How does Charlotte respond to Eduard's passion for Ottilie?

4. How do Eduard, Charlotte, and the captain speak of the concept of elective affinities?

5. How do Eduard and Ottilie unexpectedly prove their compatibility with one another?

(see the answer key)

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