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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. Who is The Queen of the Hairy-Chinned Gypsies?
(a) An old, hairy woman who wanders around town.
(b) The nickname the townspeople have given to Ruth.
(c) The name of the ghost that lives in the Van den Meer's attic.
(d) The nickname the townspeople have given to Margarethe.

2. What does Iris think of Caspar's paintings of Ruth?
(a) That they don't portray Ruth truthfully.
(b) That they are accurate but flattering.
(c) That they are horribly ugly.
(d) That the colors are very, very ugly.

3. Who is going to throw a ball?
(a) The mayor's wife.
(b) Marie de Medici.
(c) The mayor of Haarlem.
(d) Margarethe.

4. Why does Clara become so upset when van den Meer tells Margarethe that the hutsepot she makes for Lent is the best he's ever had?
(a) Because it is horrible and Clara knows he is lying.
(b) Because Clara made it herself and wants the credit.
(c) Because he knows that Clara hates hutsepot more than anything.
(d) Because Clara wants her birth mother's dishes to always be remembered as the best.

5. After the Fishers flee their homeland, who are they expecting will house and feed them?
(a) Margarethe's brother.
(b) Nuns in a local church.
(c) The girls' long-lost father.
(d) Margarethe's grandfather.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Rebekka's death, what does Margarethe worry has happened to the household?

2. What health problems does Henrika begin to develop in Chapter 2?

3. After her mother's death, why is Clara forced to leave the house?

4. How are Ruth and Iris related?

5. Who is Pieter ten Broek?

(see the answer key)

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