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

2. Who is Pieter ten Broek?
(a) Margarethe's grandfather.
(b) A priest in a local church.
(c) The girls' long-lost father.
(d) Margarethe's brother.

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

4. What are Iris and Margarethe a little afraid Schoonmaker will ask Iris to do when they first start working together?
(a) To do very hard, physical labor even though she is very young.
(b) To pose naked while he paints her.
(c) To spend all day in a very hot kitchen.
(d) To beg for money in the streets.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Caspar?

2. What has allegedly happened to Jack Fisher?

3. After the Fishers flee their homeland, who are they expecting will house and feed them?

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

5. What kind of paintings does Schoonmaker secretly paint?

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