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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 position does Saskia give Dagmar and Dagmar's husband at the castle?

2. What does the tailor ask Elke to do for him in Chapter 17?

3. What does Saskia try to do to the tailor in Chapter 29?

4. Who is not impressed when he inspects Saskia's yarns in Chapter 15?

5. What does the person who overhears Saskia's conversation in Chapter 31 tell Saskia?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the tailor do for Saskia in Chapter 18?

2. What does the king do to Saskia when her father tells him about the gold straw in Chapter 16?

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

4. What offends the tailor in Chapter 20?

5. What does the tailor offer Saskia the chance to do in Chapter 29?

6. What does the tailor ask Saskia for in Chapter 20?

7. Why does the king ask Saskia to marry him in Chapter 21? How does she reply to his proposal?

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

9. How does the novel "Spinners" end?

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

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

Discuss the motif of love and romance in the novel. Who are some couples in love in the novel? Who marries for love? Who does not? What role does romantic love play in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the setting of the novel. In what way is the setting an important aspect of this story? How do the different settings in the novel contrast with one another?

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