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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the tailor set out to prove to the young maiden's father in Chapter 1?
(a) That he can provide for the young maiden.
(b) That he is the strongest man in the village.
(c) That he is wealthy.
(d) That he loves the young maiden.

2. What does Saskia use of her mother's in Chapter 9?
(a) Her low spinning wheel.
(b) Her dress.
(c) Her yarn.
(d) Her techniques.

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

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

5. Where does Elke visit the tailor in Chapter 11?
(a) Inside his cabin.
(b) In the village square.
(c) Near the stream.
(d) Outside his cabin.

6. Where is the tailor told he can find the young maiden on the day she is to give birth?
(a) The hospital.
(b) The church.
(c) The garden.
(d) The town market.

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

8. How does the young maiden die?
(a) She falls into a frozen lake.
(b) She bumps her head on a table.
(c) She is attacked by a bear.
(d) In childbirth.

9. Why does Saskia have to sell these things in Chapter 6?
(a) So the items do not spoil.
(b) To make money to buy a new dress.
(c) To survive.
(d) As a favor to her neighbor.

10. Who has the young maiden married by Chapter 4?
(a) A sailor.
(b) A miller.
(c) A teacher.
(d) A businessman.

11. What does Saskia's father take away from her in Chapter 12?
(a) Her mother's wheel.
(b) Money.
(c) Her favorite necklace.
(d) A book.

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

13. What does Saskia not want to do in Chapter 12?
(a) Make friends with the tailor.
(b) Give up her mother's wheel.
(c) Move out.
(d) Go to school.

14. Who comes across the tailor in Chapter 7?
(a) A pair of vagrants.
(b) Some priests.
(c) A poor farmer and his son.
(d) A barmaid and a drunk.

15. What does the tailor insist Elke do in Chapter 11?
(a) Find him a new place to live.
(b) Contact Saskia.
(c) Never visit him again.
(d) Introduce him to the king.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the tailor promise to return the item to the local spinner?

2. Who does the tailor ask about when Elke shows him the object in Chapter 11?

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

4. Where does Elke have the tailor live?

5. What is the title of Part 3 of the novel?

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