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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 The Ball.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Clara get home from the ball?
(a) Schoonmaker walks her home.
(b) With Caspar, on his large white horse.
(c) The prince sends her home in his private carriage.
(d) With the help of the Queen of the Hairy-Chinned Gypsies.

2. How does Ruth react when the Master says, at the ball, that he wishes Margarethe would have burned his painting?
(a) She starts to cry.
(b) She spits involuntarily.
(c) She speaks for the first time in the novel.
(d) She stares coldly at him.

3. Who is going to throw a ball?
(a) Marie de Medici.
(b) Margarethe.
(c) The mayor's wife.
(d) The mayor of Haarlem.

4. Who does Iris dance with first at the ball?
(a) Schoonmaker.
(b) Ruth.
(c) Caspar.
(d) Someone she doesn't know -- or like.

5. What does Caspar tell Iris and Clara while they are out ice skating?
(a) That they shouldn't go too far away.
(b) That they are girls and shouldn't sweat so much.
(c) That they they both look beautiful on the ice.
(d) That they look like sisters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Iris worried about how Henrika and Margarethe interact?

2. According to the Master, what is the reason behind Margarethe's lie about his relationship with Caspar?

3. What illness is spreading around Haarlem?

4. After the Master's painting is met with great success, what does he ask Margarethe?

5. How does Iris describe Ruth as they are traveling to the ball?

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