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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. What does Clara believe happened at the windmill?
(a) She was born there.
(b) She used to help her father sell flowers there as a child.
(c) She used to play there with her father when she was very little.
(d) She was turned into a changeling there.

2. Who eventually prevails in teaching Clara how to hem her own skirt?
(a) Ruth.
(b) Margarethe.
(c) Iris.
(d) The Queen of the Hairy-Chinned Gypsies.

3. How much of the van den Meers' fortune was lost in Clara's kidnapping as a young child?
(a) Half.
(b) Nothing; they got Clara back before a ransom was paid.
(c) Nearly everything.
(d) One-third.

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

5. What is the financial situation of the van den Meers when the Fishers move in with them?
(a) The van den Meers are neither rich nor poor.
(b) The van den Meers are poor now, but expect to get more money.
(c) The van den Meers are very wealthy.
(d) The van den Meers are on the brink of poverty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Caspar?

2. How do Ruth and Iris get to the ball?

3. What does Caspar tell Iris and Clara while they are out ice skating?

4. What signal does Marie de Medici give to the prince to tell him he should move on to other ladies while meeting everyone?

5. What does Clara confess, by her father's bedside, about why she felt such a connection with Ruth?

(see the answer key)

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