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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How regularly does Elke visit the tailor in Chapter 11?
(a) Occasionally.
(b) Rarely.
(c) Often.
(d) Every day.

3. Who does the tailor ask many questions to in Chapter 13?
(a) Elke.
(b) Dagmar.
(c) Saskia.
(d) The king.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the young maiden warn the tailor about in Chapter 1?

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

3. Where does the young maiden live in Chapter 4?

4. Where does Elke visit the tailor in Chapter 11?

5. Why does the tailor leave his new home at the end of Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the young maiden concerned about in Chapter 1?

2. What does Saskia learn in Chapter 9?

3. What does the tailor spend a week looking for in Chapter 2 and why?

4. What happens when the tailor tries spinning with straw in Chapter 2?

5. What does the tailor discover when he returns home in Chapter 8?

6. What does the tailor insist upon in Chapter 11?

7. How does Saskia cut her father's cheek in Chapter 5?

8. What is the tailor's actual motives for asking many questions about Saskia in Chapter 13?

9. Why doesn't the tailor invite Elke inside his house in Chapter 11?

10. What does Saskia's father do while she is spinning threads in Chapter 12?

(see the answer keys)

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