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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 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.

2. Why does the tailor want to trade his spinning wheel for the other item in Chapter 11?
(a) His leg is in pain.
(b) His home is not comfortable or welcoming.
(c) He desires to touch the wheel in the same places his dead love did.
(d) He is hungry.

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

4. What does the tailor do to the straw to be able to do what he wants with it in Chapter 2?
(a) He cooks it.
(b) He mixes it with cow dung.
(c) He cries on it.
(d) He paints it.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Saskia's father refuse to get out of bed in Chapter 6?

3. What does Saskia discuss with her friend in Chapter 5?

4. What does she plan to do to fulfill her promise to herself in Chapter 12?

5. Why does the young tailor leave the gold dress with the old woman in chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Saskia have to do when her father becomes depressed?

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

3. Why doesn't Saskia want to trade wheels with Elke in Chapter 12?

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

5. What happens when the miller becomes depressed in Chapter 6?

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

7. Who is Elke?

8. Why does the tailor want Saskia's spinner in Chapter 11?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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