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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 The Gallery of God's Mistakes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has allegedly happened to Jack Fisher?
(a) He left the family in poverty.
(b) He will be joining the Fisher family later.
(c) He has been killed by a mob.
(d) No one really knows.

2. Right before the evening when her painting is unveiled, what cruel thing does Clara say to Iris when Iris comes to try to coax her out of her bedroom?
(a) That she is too dumb to be important to anyone.
(b) That she is hideously ugly and will never be anything.
(c) That she's just being kept around to make Clara look prettier.
(d) That her father is dead so she can't relate to how she feels.

3. What does Iris find most frustrating about her apprenticeship on the first day?
(a) That she is worse with a needle and thread than she originally thought.
(b) That she has no interest in a religious life after all.
(c) That she is far more advanced than the town baker.
(d) That she cannot immediately draw well.

4. Before heading to the ball, what do Iris and Clara agree about Caspar?
(a) That he is, in reality, a horrible painter despite all of his experience.
(b) That Clara will not try to take him from Iris.
(c) That he is in love with Clara and they should get married.
(d) That he really is a jerk.

5. After the Fishers flee their homeland, who are they expecting will house and feed them?
(a) Margarethe's brother.
(b) Margarethe's grandfather.
(c) The girls' long-lost father.
(d) Nuns in a local church.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens during Iris and Clara's attempts to get Clara out of the house?

2. Who is van Antum?

3. After the successful unveiling of the painting of Clara, what does Margarethe ask Mr. van den Meer for?

4. After Rebekka's death, what does Margarethe worry has happened to the household?

5. Who is Clara?

(see the answer key)

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