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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. What does the tailor tell the young maiden and her father about his leg in Chapter 3?

2. Who does the object that Elke brings to the tailor belong to?

3. What does the tailor come to believe about Elke in Chapter 11?

4. What does the tailor set out to prove to the young maiden's father in Chapter 1?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does the tailor meet along the side of the road in Chapter 7 and what does he ask them for?

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

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

4. What does Saskia promise herself at the end of Chapter 12?

5. Who does the maiden marry instead of the tailor in Chapter 4?

6. What classic story does "Spinners" borrow elements from?

7. How does the tailor try to convince the father of the young maiden that he is worthy of his daughter in Chapter 1?

8. Why doesn't the young maiden's father want the tailor to marry his daughter?

9. What happens at the end of Chapter 4?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the genre of the novel? What are elements commonly found in this type of novel? What are some other examples of works of this genre? What similarities do these works share with the novel "Spinners"?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the motif of betrayal in the novel "Spinners". Who betrays who and why? How do these examples of betrayal impact the characters who are betrayed?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and interpret the tailor as a character. What are his defining character traits? What is his role in the story? Is he the antagonist of the story? Why or why not? What are his goals and ambitions? What is his relationship like with Saskia?

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