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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long into her marriage does it take Saskia to become pregnant?
(a) A year.
(b) Eight months.
(c) Three months.
(d) A year and a half.

2. What position does Saskia give Dagmar and Dagmar's husband at the castle?
(a) Royal bakers.
(b) Royal court jesters.
(c) Royal seamstress and tailor.
(d) Royal groundskeepers.

3. What is special about what Saskia has to accomplish in Chapter 29?
(a) Saskia must figure out the name that her mother gave to the tailor on the day of Saskia's birth.
(b) She has a time limit.
(c) Saskia believes she has a chance to accomplish her goal easily.
(d) The tailor will give her clues along the way.

4. What does Saskia decide after meeting with some trouble in Chapter 22?
(a) She must pretend to be mute.
(b) She must run away to where no one knows about her.
(c) She should marry the king.
(d) She should tell the village the truth about how she spun gold.

5. What has her father arranged for her in Chapter 14?
(a) To bake for the king.
(b) To meet the king.
(c) To steal from the king.
(d) To seduce the king.

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

7. Who can Saskia not stop thinking about in Chapter 31?
(a) Her firstborn.
(b) The miller.
(c) The king.
(d) The tailor.

8. What does the king ask Saskia in Chapter 21?
(a) To make him a robe.
(b) To babysit his chilldren.
(c) To marry him.
(d) To be his official seamstress.

9. What does the king ask Saskia in Chapter 18?
(a) If she finds him attractive.
(b) If she is already engaged.
(c) If her family comes from money.
(d) If she is a magician.

10. What does Elke tell the tailor about at the beginning of Chapter 17?
(a) The king's secrets.
(b) Her youth.
(c) Saskia's imprisonment.
(d) The miller's alcoholism.

11. What does the person who overhears Saskia's conversation in Chapter 31 tell Saskia?
(a) That her mother was a beautiful woman.
(b) That the tailor lives in the woods and Elke is the only visitor there.
(c) That the king is very scary and she should not speak of him negatively.
(d) That she makes the court life more fun.

12. What enrages the tailor in Chapter 33?
(a) Saskia guesses his name.
(b) The king arrives with his army.
(c) The miller threatens to kill him.
(d) Saskia refuses to keep her end of the deal.

13. What does Saskia give to the tailor in Chapter 18?
(a) A bracelet.
(b) Elke's scarf.
(c) Her mother's ring.
(d) A lock of her hair.

14. What will the tailor do if Saskia gives him what he wants in Chapter 20?
(a) He will kill the king.
(b) He will leave the village forever.
(c) He will spin the last room of straw into gold.
(d) He will make Saskia immortal.

15. Who does Saskia ask the guard and head servant to keep an eye out for in Chapter 25?
(a) The king.
(b) The tailor.
(c) Elke.
(d) Dagmar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the king threaten to do in Chapter 19?

2. Why does Saskia do whatever she can to make the king love her in Chapter 23?

3. Why does Saskia wash herself with vinegar every morning in Chapter 23?

4. What is the tailor focused on in Chapter 24?

5. What does the tailor do to his body as he waits for his grandchild to arrive?

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