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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the people who the tailor has recently met feel about the tailor?
(a) They see him as a servant.
(b) They see him as family.
(c) They see him as garbage.
(d) They see him as a friend.

2. Of whom does the tailor ask questions about in Chapter 13?
(a) The miller.
(b) The king.
(c) Elke.
(d) Saskia.

3. What does the tailor request of the passersby?
(a) Guidance.
(b) Room and board.
(c) Food and money.
(d) Mercy.

4. Why does this happen to the tailor's leg in Chapter 2?
(a) He wanted to declare his love for the young maiden.
(b) He had been building a table for his house.
(c) He had been working very hard.
(d) He had been climbing in the woods.

5. What is Saskia unable to resist doing in Chapter 12?
(a) Spinning a small number of threads on the tailor's wheel.
(b) Stealing money from her father.
(c) Skimming through a school book.
(d) Spying on the tailor.

6. What does the young maiden try to do to the tailor's leg at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) Cut it off.
(b) Massage it.
(c) Stitch it up.
(d) Hide it.

7. How does Saskia accidentally cut her father's cheek?
(a) By trying to make his haircut even.
(b) By handing him scissors absentmindedly.
(c) By shoving the cat in his face.
(d) By shaving his beard.

8. Who is Elke?
(a) A member of the aristocracy who pities the tailor.
(b) A fellow tailor who is close to the tailor.
(c) A woman who insists on seeing the tailor create some of his fine yarns.
(d) The tailor's neighbor who supports him.

9. Where does the tailor go at the beginning of Chapter 8?
(a) To a big city.
(b) To a secluded seaside village.
(c) His home village.
(d) To the forest.

10. What is the title of Part 3 of the novel?
(a) "Saskia and the Miller".
(b) "Yarn".
(c) "The tailor".
(d) "Spinners".

11. Who does the tailor ask about when Elke shows him the object in Chapter 11?
(a) Elke.
(b) The spinner.
(c) The King.
(d) The miller.

12. What does Saskia's father help do at the end of Chapter 10?
(a) Tend the garden.
(b) Find Saskia's lucky scarf.
(c) Make supper.
(d) Take yarn to the market.

13. What does Elke believe of the tailor's feelings for Saskia in Chapter 13?
(a) He is indifferent towards her.
(b) He tolerates her.
(c) He loves her.
(d) He hates her.

14. How does the tailor feel about the people he has met after a few weeks in Chapter 7?
(a) He resents them.
(b) He thinks they are kind folk who are just down on their luck.
(c) He feels as though he has become a part of the family.
(d) He thinks they are the lowest form of human.

15. What does the tailor feel for Saskia's mother in Chapter 13?
(a) He still thinks of her once in a while with fondness.
(b) He barely remember her.
(c) He has grown to hate her.
(d) He loves her the same as he did so many years before.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the tailor come to believe about Elke in Chapter 11?

2. What will the tailor do to satisfy the young maiden's father's doubts?

3. What does the tailor tell the young maiden and her father about his leg in Chapter 3?

4. What is the title of Part 2?

5. What does the tailor set out to prove to the young maiden's father in Chapter 1?

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