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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 The Ball.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What famous fairy tale does Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister depend on the reader being familiar with?
(a) Cinderella.
(b) None of these answers is correct.
(c) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
(d) Peter Pan.

2. As they prepare for the ball, what does Margarethe demand Iris fill the house with?
(a) Beautiful dresses for them to try to choose from.
(b) The finest perfumes available in town.
(c) Tulips in vases.
(d) The smell of incense.

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

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

5. How is Marie de Medici described physically?
(a) As beautiful and unusually tall.
(b) As old and overweight -- obese, even.
(c) As both beautiful and exceptionally intelligent.
(d) As very smart and cunning.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before heading to the ball, what do Iris and Clara agree about Caspar?

2. As the ball approaches, what does the reader learn about Margarethe's neighbors' opinion of her?

3. What is the financial situation of the van den Meers when the Fishers move in with them?

4. What does Caspar tell Iris and Clara while they are out ice skating?

5. What city do the Fishers flee to?

(see the answer key)

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