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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Preparation: Chapters 21-28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Saskia doing when she learns some news from her father in Chapter 14?
(a) She is eating.
(b) She is working on a new yarn.
(c) She is tending to the garden.
(d) She is doing laundry.

2. Why does the miller claim that Saskia can spin straw into gold in Chapter 15?
(a) He is desperate for Saskia to be declared the king's spinner.
(b) He decides to get back at Saskia for cutting his hair while he was asleep.
(c) He is drunk and confused.
(d) He believes his daughter can do anything.

3. What is the young maiden's father's concern in Chapter 1?
(a) That the crops will spoil.
(b) That the tailor cannot provide the life he wants for his daughter.
(c) That he will lose his business.
(d) That the young maiden will run away.

4. What is so unique about Saskia's yarn?
(a) She dyes it brilliant colors.
(b) The combination of vegetation and thread.
(c) She incorporates already spun thread into the newly-spun thread.
(d) It is much thicker than normal yarn.

5. Why do the tailor and Elke meet where they do in Chapter 11?
(a) It is cold outside.
(b) They want privacy.
(c) They want to be seen by others.
(d) He does not want to have her inside his sparse little home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the tailor realize when Elke tells him about the creator of the object she brings him in Chapter 11?

2. Who does Saskia ask the guard and head servant to keep an eye out for in Chapter 25?

3. Who is Saskia?

4. What does Saskia's father think of Elke's request in Chapter 12?

5. Who has the young maiden married by Chapter 4?

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