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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 catches Iris's eye about Schoonmaker's lodgings?
(a) How poor his family seems to be.
(b) The vivid colors she sees through the window.
(c) The lovely flowers on his front lawn.
(d) The beautiful windows in the church.

2. What item does Ruth try to steal in the marketplace?
(a) A loaf of bread.
(b) A pear.
(c) A fish.
(d) Some meat.

3. What items does Margarethe give Iris to give the Van den Meers when she is sent over to their household for the first time?
(a) A pastry.
(b) A letter.
(c) A fancy silk handkerchief.
(d) A toy windmill.

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

5. Who is Clara?
(a) The ghost who lives in Schoonmaker's house.
(b) A street girl without a family.
(c) Caspar's sister.
(d) Van den Meer's beautiful young daughter.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How are Ruth and Iris related?

4. When the Fishers first arrive in the marketplace, how are they treated?

5. How is Margarethe initially described in the novel?

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