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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the tailor ask Saskia for in Chapter 20?
(a) The gold straw.
(b) A lock of her hair.
(c) Her necklace.
(d) Her firstborn child.

4. How does the tailor react to Saskia during the first night in Chapter 30?
(a) He is disappointed by her.
(b) He laughs.
(c) He applauds her.
(d) He is shamed by her.

5. What does Saskia beg for in Chapter 29?
(a) For her father to be buried a hero.
(b) For the doctor to make her miscarriage.
(c) To save her firstborn.
(d) For Dagmar to stay at the castle.

6. How does Saskia feel about her pregnancy?
(a) She is excited.
(b) She is cautiously optimistic.
(c) She is frightened.
(d) She is indifferent.

7. What does the tailor do while spinning in Chapter 17?
(a) He coughs.
(b) He cries.
(c) He watches Saskia.
(d) He sings.

8. How does the king prove that he will never ask Saskia to spin straw into gold again?
(a) He burns her wheel.
(b) He cuts off his tongue.
(c) He gives the wheel away.
(d) He locks the wheel away.

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

10. What does Saskia try to convince herself of in Chapter 29?
(a) That she is worthy of ther king's love.
(b) That her body will return to how it looked pre-pregnancy.
(c) That the tailor will not come to take her offspring.
(d) That the king will protect her offspring.

11. What does the tailor do to his home as he waits for his grandchild to arrive?
(a) He buys some livestock.
(b) He gets rid of all his alcohol.
(c) He adds an extension.
(d) He fixes it up.

12. What does Saskia try to do to the tailor in Chapter 29?
(a) Hit him.
(b) Have him arrested.
(c) Bribe him.
(d) Trick him.

13. What does Saskia have her guards do in Chapter 31?
(a) Kill the tailor.
(b) Watch the tailor and figure out his name.
(c) Arrest the tailor.
(d) Follow Elke.

14. Why does Saskia wash herself with vinegar every morning in Chapter 23?
(a) To bleach her skin.
(b) To repel the king.
(c) To prevent pregnancy.
(d) To prevent disease.

15. What does Saskia think by the end of Chapter 16?
(a) That she will die.
(b) That she will be able to trick the king.
(c) That she will miss her father.
(d) That she will be dishonored.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the king do after seeing Saskia's work in Chapter 18?

2. When Saskia returns home in Chapter 22, what does her father want her to do?

3. What does the entire village want Saskia to do for them in Chapter 22?

4. Why is Saskia angry with the king in Chapter 21?

5. What has brought Saskia and Dagmar closer together in Chapter 14?

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