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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue and Chapter 1 The Obscure Child.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Schoonmaker prefer the Fishers call him?
(a) Master.
(b) Padrino.
(c) Father.
(d) Sir.

2. How is Ruth initially described in the novel?
(a) As mentally impaired and hard to control.
(b) As conscientious and unattractive.
(c) As beautiful and loving.
(d) As shy and unable/unwilling to speak.

3. Who is Caspar?
(a) The man who delivers groceries every day.
(b) The Fishers' boss when Schoonmaker is gone.
(c) A boy who works at a church.
(d) Schoonmaker's apprentice.

4. What famous fairy tale does Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister depend on the reader being familiar with?
(a) None of these answers is correct.
(b) Peter Pan.
(c) Cinderella.
(d) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

5. Who is Schoonmaker?
(a) A long-lost relative of Margarethe's.
(b) A priest.
(c) A city boy who helps them find the road.
(d) A painter in the village.

Short Answer Questions

1. What item does Iris actually steal in the marketplace?

2. What role does Iris take in Schoonmaker's household?

3. When she first arrives, what services does Margarethe offer the townspeople in exchange for food and housing?

4. What items does Margarethe give Iris to give the Van den Meers when she is sent over to their household for the first time?

5. When the book begins, from what country have the Fishers fled?

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