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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What motion does Ottilie make that distinctly translates her desires for the future?
(a) Covering her face in her hands and dressing in a nun's black habit.
(b) Seizing Eduard's and Charlotte's hands and bringing them together.
(c) Gesturing toward the cliff face and indicating she will jump off.
(d) Going to the Major and kneeling submissively before him.

2. What, in general, describes Luciane's personality?
(a) She is reticent and argumentative, and people find her hard to get along with.
(b) She is overly critical of everybody, directly to their faces.
(c) She is highly intelligent and beautiful and has a soft, compliant personality.
(d) She is energetic and attractive but can be annoying and ignorant of others' desires or needs.

3. What is the title of the story the foreign visitor tells Charlotte and Ottilie?
(a) "The Unfortunate Young Lovers."
(b) "The Wayward Young Neighbors."
(c) "The Sensible Old Couple."
(d) "The Passionate Shepherd and Lady."

4. When is the only time Ottilie does not take Otto with her?
(a) When she strolls through the woods.
(b) When she rows out on the lake.
(c) When she walks into town.
(d) When she tidies up her wing of the house.

5. Where does Eduard ride to in order to await Ottilie's arrival at the beginning of Part II, Chapter 16?
(a) The farmstead.
(b) The pavilion.
(c) The inn.
(d) The lakeshore.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose observations on the landscape of the estate serve to enrich Charlotte and Ottilie's experience of the land?

2. Why is Charlotte agitated by the foreign visitor's tale?

3. What event marks the newborn's baptism with foreboding?

4. What signal does Eduard arrange with the Major to notify him of his plan's success?

5. Who is the Major?

Short Essay Questions

1. Briefly describe Luciane, Charlotte's daughter from her first marriage.

2. What is the substance of Eduard's proposition to the Major, and the Major's response to it?

3. What plans does the architect have for the church?

4. What foreign visitor comes to the estate, and how do his views impact Charlotte and Ottilie?

5. What event at the end of Part II, Chapter 8, is saturated with both happiness and grave foreboding, and how?

6. What does Ottilie decide to embark upon as a career, and why?

7. Whom does Eduard meet when he walks through his own estate, and what is the significance of their meeting?

8. Which of Luciane's experiments in "moral regeneration" goes wrong, which Charlotte hears about after Luciane leaves the estate?

9. How does Charlotte respond to the tragedy involving Ottilie and Otto?

10. What does Eduard plan with the Major regarding their relationships with Charlotte and Ottilie?

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