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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 want Elke to trade his spinning wheel for in Chapter 11?

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

3. What does the tailor do to the straw to be able to do what he wants with it in Chapter 2?

4. Who comes across the tailor in Chapter 7?

5. What does the tailor buy from the farmer in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why doesn't the tailor invite Elke inside his house in Chapter 11?

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

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

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

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

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

8. Who is Elke?

9. What does the tailor spend a week looking for in Chapter 2 and why?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the motif of family in the novel "Spinners". Describe Saskia's family. Is family important to her? In what way is her family life complicated?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the different archetypes present in the novel. Are these archetypes commonly found in fairy tales?

Essay Topic 3

What is a character foil and who is Saskia's foil? Why is this person Saskia's foil?

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