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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. Where does the tailor go at the beginning of Chapter 8?

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

3. What does Elke bring to the tailor in Chapter 11?

4. Who does the tailor ask about when Elke shows him the object in Chapter 11?

5. What does the tailor feel for Saskia's mother in Chapter 13?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 does the tailor leave the family in Chapter 7?

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

10. What is the young maiden concerned about in Chapter 1?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Analyze the symbolism in the novel "Spinners". What are some examples of symbolism in the novel? What does the spinning wheel symbolize? What does the tailor's deformed leg symbolize?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and interpret the imagery in the novel "Spinners". What are some examples of imagery in the novel and what is the meaning behind them?

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