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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 the tailor take from a local spinner in Chapter 2?
(a) Her yarn.
(b) Her book of secrets.
(c) Her low wheel.
(d) Her ring.

2. Who does the tailor ask about when Elke shows him the object in Chapter 11?
(a) The spinner.
(b) The miller.
(c) The King.
(d) Elke.

3. How do the people who the tailor has recently met feel about the tailor?
(a) They see him as a friend.
(b) They see him as family.
(c) They see him as a servant.
(d) They see him as garbage.

4. Why does this happen to the tailor's leg in Chapter 2?
(a) He wanted to declare his love for the young maiden.
(b) He had been building a table for his house.
(c) He had been climbing in the woods.
(d) He had been working very hard.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Elke tell the tailor about the person who made the object in Chapter 11?

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

3. How regularly does Elke visit the tailor in Chapter 11?

4. Where are the young maiden and the tailor at the beginning of the story?

5. Who catches the tailor in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Saskia's father help out in Chapter 10?

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

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

4. Why does the tailor approach the local spinner in Chapter 2?

5. Who is Elke?

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

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

8. What does Elke assume when the tailor keeps asking her questions about Saskia in Chapter 13?

9. Why does the tailor want Saskia's spinner 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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