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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 does Henrika die from?
(a) She dies of natural causes.
(b) She stabs herself with a sharp blade.
(c) Starving herself out of protest.
(d) Complications from giving birth too early.

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

3. What illness is spreading around Haarlem?
(a) The plague.
(b) The flu.
(c) Some kind of contagious mental illness that makes people go insane.
(d) Some kind of unknown cancer.

4. 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 spend all day in a very hot kitchen.
(c) To do very hard, physical labor even though she is very young.
(d) To pose naked while he paints her.

5. What prompts Iris to try to get Clara out of the house in Chapter 2?
(a) Henrika finally gives her permission.
(b) Clara decides to ignore her mother's wishes and just walk out the front door.
(c) Margarethe demands that Iris take Clara to the marketplace.
(d) Henrika is bedridden and won't be able to see them leave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reaction does Clara have to the windmill?

2. Right before the evening when her painting is unveiled, what cruel thing does Clara say to Iris when Iris comes to try to coax her out of her bedroom?

3. Why do Clara and Iris decide to stop into the windmill while out ice skating?

4. What has allegedly happened to Jack Fisher?

5. Who eventually prevails in teaching Clara how to hem her own skirt?

(see the answer key)

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