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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 king react to Saskia's work in Chapter 19?

2. Why does the tailor plan to leave the village for a year in Chapter 28?

3. How does Saskia feel about her pregnancy?

4. What does Saskia have to offer the tailor in Chapter 19?

5. What does Elke finally tell the tailor in Chapter 24?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the tailor anticipate in Chapter 32?

2. How does the king prove to Saskia that he will never ask her to spin straw again?

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

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

5. Why does Saskia try to make the king love her in Chapter 23?

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

7. What does Elke tell Saskia about the tailor in Chapter 31?

8. How does the novel "Spinners" end?

9. What offends the tailor in Chapter 20?

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

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 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 3

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?

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