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

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

3. What kind of paintings does Schoonmaker secretly paint?
(a) Paintings with bad words hidden in them.
(b) Paintings of maimed and deformed people.
(c) Modern, abstract paintings.
(d) Paintings of nature.

4. When the book begins, who is the narrator?
(a) A man named Incubus.
(b) A reporter.
(c) A man named Caspar.
(d) An older woman who is partially crippled.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How are Ruth and Iris related?

3. What role does Ruth take in Schoonmaker's household?

4. Who is Schoonmaker?

5. How is Margarethe initially described in the novel?

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