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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What item is Iris given to work with on the first day of her apprenticeship?
(a) A piece of red silk.
(b) A pound of very stale flour.
(c) A personalized bible.
(d) A seashell.

3. What kind of paintings does Schoonmaker secretly paint?
(a) Paintings of maimed and deformed people.
(b) Paintings with bad words hidden in them.
(c) Paintings of nature.
(d) Modern, abstract paintings.

4. What item does Ruth try to steal in the marketplace?
(a) Some meat.
(b) A fish.
(c) A loaf of bread.
(d) A pear.

5. Why is Clara upset about what Sinter Klaas left in her shoe?
(a) She didn't receive anything and thinks Margarethe is playing a cruel joke on her.
(b) She thought she should have gotten more money, since she had lost more teeth that Ruth.
(c) She knows Sinter Klaas is not real but Margarethe is treating her like a child.
(d) She thought she deserved more candy than Ruth and Iris.

6. What argument does Margarethe use to convince van den Meer that he should marry her?
(a) That it would be best for Clara and her reputation.
(b) That she will otherwise not stay to just cook and clean for free.
(c) That she has a family inheritance of her own.
(d) That she loves him very much.

7. Why are the Master and Caspar invited over for dinner with the newly formed van den Meer family?
(a) Margarethe wants to be rude and show the Master that she is happier with Mr. Van den Meer.
(b) The Master has been asked to paint a family portrait.
(c) Margarethe wants to show off her new family.
(d) Caspar is going to propose to Iris.

8. What catches Iris's eye about Schoonmaker's lodgings?
(a) The beautiful windows in the church.
(b) How poor his family seems to be.
(c) The vivid colors she sees through the window.
(d) The lovely flowers on his front lawn.

9. Who is Rebekka?
(a) A cook hired to help in the van den Meer household.
(b) A young girl Iris befriended in the neighborhood.
(c) A girl who has a condition similar to Ruth's.
(d) Margarethe's long-lost sister.

10. Who does Iris eventually go to apprentice with, after much protest?
(a) Caspar and the Master.
(b) The nuns in the church next door.
(c) The town seamstress.
(d) The town baker.

11. What health problems does Henrika begin to develop in Chapter 2?
(a) She has such bad pains in her legs that she can't walk anymore.
(b) She begins to go insane.
(c) She begins to lose her eyesight.
(d) She begins to have a very difficult pregnancy.

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

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

14. Before the large dinner party where his painting of Clara is revealed, what does the Master do to help comfort Ruth?
(a) He holds her hand.
(b) He presents her with a painting of her own.
(c) He speaks softly to her.
(d) He hums her favorite songs.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Iris initially described in the novel?

2. What does Clara believe happened at the windmill?

3. Who is The Queen of the Hairy-Chinned Gypsies?

4. What role does Iris take in Schoonmaker's household?

5. When the book begins, from what country have the Fishers fled?

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