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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 The Imp-Riddled House.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has happened to Pieter ten Broek?
(a) He has moved to America.
(b) He has lost his job with the church and is very poor now.
(c) He is in an insane asylum.
(d) He has died.

2. What worries Iris about the Master's "I am going to ruin you yet" comment while he is working on his painting of Clara?
(a) She worries he is planning to kill Mr. Van den Meer.
(b) She doesn't know to whom he is referring.
(c) She thinks he is going to commit suicide.
(d) She thinks he is referring to Margarethe.

3. What role does Iris take in Schoonmaker's household?
(a) She stands outside holding an advertisement for his business.
(b) She scrubs the floors every other day.
(c) She sits so he can paint her.
(d) She makes her famous biscuits every morning.

4. What city do the Fishers flee to?
(a) The reader never learns the name of the city.
(b) Haarlem.
(c) Paris.
(d) London.

5. How does the Master respond to the success of his painting of Clara?
(a) He is very proud and excited.
(b) He becomes incredibly wealthy.
(c) He becomes depressed.
(d) He starts being mean to everyone around him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Caspar promise Iris one morning while she is visiting him and the Master during her work for the van den Meers?

2. What are Iris and Margarethe a little afraid Schoonmaker will ask Iris to do when they first start working together?

3. What do Caspar and Iris both believe lives in the highest part of the van den Meers' house?

4. What has allegedly happened to Jack Fisher?

5. What prompts Iris to try to get Clara out of the house in Chapter 2?

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