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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who is Saskia?
(a) The miller's sister.
(b) The miller's niece.
(c) The miller's daughter.
(d) The miller's granddaughter.

5. What is the title of Part 2?
(a) "Survival".
(b) "The Past and the Present".
(c) "Wishful Thinking".
(d) "Generations".

6. What job does Elke give the tailor?
(a) The title of co-president of a small tailoring company.
(b) A menial job.
(c) She commissions him to make her daughter's wedding dress.
(d) The King's chief spinner.

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

8. What happens when the tailor tries to return the item to the old woman in Chapter 3?
(a) She thanks him with a feast.
(b) She does not want it back.
(c) She notices that it is broken.
(d) She cries on his shoulders.

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

10. What is the title of Part 1 of the novel?
(a) First Love.
(b) Love Gone Wrong.
(c) Sisterly Love.
(d) Young Love.

11. Where are the young maiden and the tailor at the beginning of the story?
(a) Swimming in a pond.
(b) In the young maiden's house.
(c) In a farmer's barn.
(d) In an abandoned shed.

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

13. What does Saskia's father think of Elke's request in Chapter 12?
(a) He thinks it is a good trade.
(b) He thinks Elke is crazy.
(c) He thinks it is a foolish plan.
(d) He thinks it would work financially.

14. 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 he will lose his business.
(c) That the young maiden will run away.
(d) That the crops will spoil.

15. What does she plan to do to fulfill her promise to herself in Chapter 12?
(a) Visit the tailor.
(b) Buy the wheel back.
(c) Apologize to her father.
(d) Seek revenge on her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Elke ask Saskia's father do to in Chapter 12?

2. Who does the tailor ask many questions to in Chapter 13?

3. Who is Elke?

4. What does Saskia have to sell in Chapter 6?

5. What does Elke bring to the tailor in Chapter 11?

(see the answer keys)

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