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

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

3. What does the king do after seeing Saskia's work in Chapter 18?
(a) He has a feast.
(b) He has Saskia walk alongside him in a parade.
(c) He calls her a witch.
(d) He moves her to a bigger room with more straw.

4. What does the tailor do with the straw in Chapter 17?
(a) He burns it.
(b) He sleeps on it.
(c) He spins it into gold.
(d) He throws it out a window.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Saskia give to the tailor in Chapter 18?

2. What does the tailor ask Elke to do for him in Chapter 17?

3. What does the king do to Saskia in Chapter 16?

4. How does the king react to Saskia's work in Chapter 18?

5. What does the person who overhears Saskia's conversation in Chapter 31 tell Saskia?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Saskia run away from Dagmar's home in Chapter 22?

2. Why does the king ask Saskia to marry him in Chapter 21? How does she reply to his proposal?

3. What does the tailor do to Saskia in Chapter 33?

4. What happens on the first night in Chapter 30?

5. Why does Saskia run away from home in Chapter 22?

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

7. What does the miller tell the King that his wife once told him in Chapter 15?

8. How does the novel "Spinners" end?

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

10. What does the king do to Saskia when her father tells him about the gold straw in Chapter 16?

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