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

2. What mistake does Eduard make while leaving the note?
(a) He forgets that due to a change of plans, Ottilie will no longer arrive at that place.
(b) He neglects to sign it, so Ottilie will not know who wrote it.
(c) He accidentally leaves the note in the wrong room.
(d) He accidentally locks himself in the room which Ottilie will be occupying.

3. What is the long-term plan of the new house guest?
(a) To travel the world and write a memoir.
(b) To take a high class position at the royal court.
(c) To find a wife and settle down to a farmer's lifestyle.
(d) To marry and to take over the management of the boarding school.

4. What event endangers the protagonists of the story?
(a) A blazing house fire.
(b) An attempted murder.
(c) A carriage robbery.
(d) A river yacht crash.

5. Who had encouraged the house guest to come to the estate?
(a) The architect.
(b) The General.
(c) The Captain.
(d) The Baroness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Major and Eduard first do when they are reunited?

2. What creatures does Luciane find amusing?

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

4. Where does Eduard ride to in order to await Ottilie's arrival at the beginning of Part II, Chapter 16?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the circumstances of Ottilie's death.

2. How does Charlotte and Ottilie's relationship change after Otto's death?

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

4. What are Charlotte's views of memorials?

5. How does the novel end?

6. What amusement does the Count suggest should occupy Luciane's energies?

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

8. Summarize the reason for the solicitor's visit to Charlotte, which is related at the beginning of Part II.

9. How do Eduard, Charlotte, and Ottilie act once they are all living in the same house together again?

10. What is the general substance of Ottilie's first journal entry, at the end of Part II, Chapter 2?

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