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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who eventually prevails in teaching Clara how to hem her own skirt?
(a) Margarethe.
(b) Ruth.
(c) Iris.
(d) The Queen of the Hairy-Chinned Gypsies.

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

3. Why do Clara and Iris decide to stop into the windmill while out ice skating?
(a) Iris needs to use a bathroom.
(b) They are very thirsty and are looking for water.
(c) Clara needs to use a bathroom.
(d) They are just tired and want to take a break.

4. When the book begins, who is the narrator?
(a) A man named Caspar.
(b) An older woman who is partially crippled.
(c) A man named Incubus.
(d) A reporter.

5. What reaction does Clara have to the windmill?
(a) She seems to remember it from long ago.
(b) She finds it very dirty.
(c) She instantly decides she wants to move there.
(d) She is grateful for its water fountain.

6. What are Iris and Margarethe a little afraid Schoonmaker will ask Iris to do when they first start working together?
(a) To pose naked while he paints her.
(b) To do very hard, physical labor even though she is very young.
(c) To spend all day in a very hot kitchen.
(d) To beg for money in the streets.

7. What does Caspar tell Iris and Clara while they are out ice skating?
(a) That they they both look beautiful on the ice.
(b) That they are girls and shouldn't sweat so much.
(c) That they shouldn't go too far away.
(d) That they look like sisters.

8. What other major event happens the evening Rebekka dies?
(a) Van den Meer's boat of tulips arrives.
(b) Margarethe confesses to poisoning Henrika.
(c) Ruth says her first word.
(d) Margarethe realizes she is pregnant.

9. 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 Clara wants her birth mother's dishes to always be remembered as the best.
(b) Because Clara made it herself and wants the credit.
(c) Because he knows that Clara hates hutsepot more than anything.
(d) Because it is horrible and Clara knows he is lying.

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

11. What city do the Fishers flee to?
(a) The reader never learns the name of the city.
(b) London.
(c) Paris.
(d) Haarlem.

12. After Henrika's death, what is her portrait replaced with in the van den Meers' household?
(a) A portrait of Margarethe.
(b) Henrika's portrait is never replaced.
(c) The portrait of Clara.
(d) A portrait of tulips.

13. How are Ruth and Iris related?
(a) Iris is Ruth's older sister.
(b) They are cousins.
(c) Ruth is Iris's older sister.
(d) Ruth is Iris's mom.

14. 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.

15. Why is Iris worried about how Henrika and Margarethe interact?
(a) She worries Henrika is getting all of her mother's attention.
(b) She thinks they are becoming too friendly.
(c) She doesn't want Henrika to kick out the Fishers.
(d) She doesn't want Clara to begin to feel ignored.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schoonmaker prefer the Fishers call him?

2. When the Fishers first arrive in the marketplace, how are they treated?

3. What kind of paintings does Schoonmaker secretly paint?

4. What happens to Rebekka?

5. Why are the Master and Caspar invited over for dinner with the newly formed van den Meer family?

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