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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 The Girl of Ashes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What role does Ruth take in Schoonmaker's household?
(a) She paints copies of his paintings.
(b) She fetches new paints for him.
(c) She gathers flowers for him every day.
(d) She sits so he can paint her.

2. What other major event happens the evening Rebekka dies?
(a) Margarethe confesses to poisoning Henrika.
(b) Van den Meer's boat of tulips arrives.
(c) Margarethe realizes she is pregnant.
(d) Ruth says her first word.

3. After her mother's death, why is Clara forced to leave the house?
(a) To go shopping in the marketplace.
(b) Because Margarethe demands she do it.
(c) Because her father wants to flee with her in the middle of the night.
(d) To attend her mother's funeral.

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

5. What happens to the van den Meers' wealth at the end of Chapter 3?
(a) It is lost when the tulip market crashes.
(b) It doesn't do much, since Margarethe is too cheap to buy anything nice.
(c) It ends up being stolen by the very guards hired to protect it.
(d) It increases drastically right after Margarethe marries into the family.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is a member of the Fisher family?

2. What does Clara believe happened at the windmill?

3. Who is going to throw a ball?

4. What argument does Margarethe use to convince van den Meer that he should marry her?

5. Why is Iris worried about how Henrika and Margarethe interact?

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