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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the tailor feel about the people he has met after a few weeks in Chapter 7?

2. Of whom does the tailor ask questions about in Chapter 13?

3. What happens to the tailor's leg in Chapter 2?

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

5. Why does Saskia have to sell these things in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Saskia learn in Chapter 9?

3. What does the young maiden do when the tailor's leg becomes cramped in Chapter 3?

4. What happens at the end of Chapter 4?

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

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

9. Who is Elke?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the motif of separation in the novel. Who is the tailor separated from throughout the novel? How does this impact his character? Who is Saskia separated from? How does she feel when her birth secret is revealed? Does she feel a sense of loss to know that she has been separated from her birth father her whole life? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss conflict in the novel "Spinners". Who is in conflict with whom and why? How do these conflicts alter or influence the plot and the characters?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the struggles faced by Saskia throughout the novel. How does she deal with these obstacles and how does she overcome them? What or who causes these problems for her?

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