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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 do when the tailor arrives in Chapter 33?
(a) She smiles and snaps her fingers.
(b) She asks him many questions.
(c) She pretends to be sad.
(d) She laughs at him.

2. What is the tailor focused on in Chapter 24?
(a) The grandchild he will soon have.
(b) His impending wedding.
(c) Finding a new house.
(d) Avoiding Saskia.

3. Who is not impressed when he inspects Saskia's yarns in Chapter 15?
(a) The miller.
(b) The king.
(c) The tailor.
(d) Dagmar's brother.

4. When Saskia returns home in Chapter 22, what does her father want her to do?
(a) Clean the house from top to bottom.
(b) Spin straw into gold for him.
(c) Marry the neighbor's son.
(d) Meet with the tailor.

5. How does the tailor react to the news of Saskia's pregnancy?
(a) He is angry.
(b) He is jealous.
(c) He is scared.
(d) He is pleased.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much time passes in Chapter 27?

2. What does the tailor refuse in Chapter 29?

3. Why does Saskia do whatever she can to make the king love her in Chapter 23?

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

5. Why does the tailor taunt Saskia in Chapter 33?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Saskia needs the tailors help in Chapter 19?

2. What does the tailor do in anticipation of the arrival of his grandchild in Chapter 26?

3. What offends the tailor in Chapter 20?

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

5. What does the tailor do when Elke tells him about Saskia's situation in Chapter 17?

6. What does the tailor do in anticipation of his grandchild in Chapter 32?

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

8. What does Elke confess to the tailor in Chapter 24?

9. What makes Saskia frightened in Chapter 24?

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

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