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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is kermis?
(a) A religious practice that only girls are allowed to do.
(b) A type of Dutch dress.
(c) The nickname Margarethe calls Clara behind her back.
(d) The last day before Lent begins.

2. Before heading to the ball, what do Iris and Clara agree about Caspar?
(a) That Clara will not try to take him from Iris.
(b) That he really is a jerk.
(c) That he is, in reality, a horrible painter despite all of his experience.
(d) That he is in love with Clara and they should get married.

3. Who is a member of the Fisher family?
(a) All of these answers are correct.
(b) Iris.
(c) Ruth.
(d) Margarethe.

4. When they are young, what does Clara tell Iris is the only thing that makes her happy?
(a) Spending time in her private garden.
(b) Being alone in her room.
(c) Learning English from Iris.
(d) Listening to her father play the piano.

5. Who does Iris dance with first at the ball?
(a) Ruth.
(b) Someone she doesn't know -- or like.
(c) Caspar.
(d) Schoonmaker.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Marie de Medici lose her power?

2. How does Clara get home from the ball?

3. In Chapter 4, what ailment does Margarethe claim to have gotten while visiting the Master and seeing his horrible paintings?

4. 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?

5. When Margarethe refers to the imp in their family, to whom is she actually referring?

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