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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue and Chapter 1 The Obscure Child.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the Fishers flee their homeland, who are they expecting will house and feed them?
(a) Margarethe's brother.
(b) Nuns in a local church.
(c) The girls' long-lost father.
(d) Margarethe's grandfather.

2. What has happened to Pieter ten Broek?
(a) He has moved to America.
(b) He has lost his job with the church and is very poor now.
(c) He has died.
(d) He is in an insane asylum.

3. What famous fairy tale does Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister depend on the reader being familiar with?
(a) None of these answers is correct.
(b) Cinderella.
(c) Peter Pan.
(d) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

4. How is Margarethe initially described in the novel?
(a) As silent and strong.
(b) As strict and careworn.
(c) As stubborn and rude.
(d) As optimistic and kind.

5. What item does Ruth try to steal in the marketplace?
(a) Some meat.
(b) A loaf of bread.
(c) A fish.
(d) A pear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What catches Iris's eye about Schoonmaker's lodgings?

2. What are Iris and Margarethe a little afraid Schoonmaker will ask Iris to do when they first start working together?

3. What items does Margarethe give Iris to give the Van den Meers when she is sent over to their household for the first time?

4. When she first arrives, what services does Margarethe offer the townspeople in exchange for food and housing?

5. What item does Iris actually steal in the marketplace?

(see the answer key)

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