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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Clara believe happened at the windmill?
(a) She used to play there with her father when she was very little.
(b) She used to help her father sell flowers there as a child.
(c) She was born there.
(d) She was turned into a changeling there.

2. Who is the American equivalent of Sinter Klaas, the person for whom the girls leave their shoes out one night?
(a) There is no equivalent for this figure.
(b) The tooth fairy.
(c) Sister Klass, the patron saint of candy.
(d) Santa Claus.

3. What does Iris find most frustrating about her apprenticeship on the first day?
(a) That she has no interest in a religious life after all.
(b) That she is worse with a needle and thread than she originally thought.
(c) That she cannot immediately draw well.
(d) That she is far more advanced than the town baker.

4. What signal does Marie de Medici give to the prince to tell him he should move on to other ladies while meeting everyone?
(a) A kick under the table.
(b) A slight cough.
(c) A poke in the side.
(d) A little handwritten note.

5. How does Ruth react when the Master says, at the ball, that he wishes Margarethe would have burned his painting?
(a) She stares coldly at him.
(b) She starts to cry.
(c) She spits involuntarily.
(d) She speaks for the first time in the novel.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Clara end up dying?

2. Why does Margarethe feel that Philippe de Marisllac will be interested in Iris?

3. Who is going to throw a ball?

4. Who was Jack Fisher?

5. How does Cornelius react to his grandchildren?

(see the answer key)

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