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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Caspar?
(a) The Fishers' boss when Schoonmaker is gone.
(b) A boy who works at a church.
(c) The man who delivers groceries every day.
(d) Schoonmaker's apprentice.

3. Who is Pieter ten Broek?
(a) A priest in a local church.
(b) The girls' long-lost father.
(c) Margarethe's grandfather.
(d) Margarethe's brother.

4. Henrika and Margarethe usually get along:
(a) Perfectly -- they quickly become best friends.
(b) Not very well at all.
(c) Sometimes really well and sometimes not very well at all.
(d) They never see each other.

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

6. 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?
(a) That she is too dumb to be important to anyone.
(b) That she's just being kept around to make Clara look prettier.
(c) That she is hideously ugly and will never be anything.
(d) That her father is dead so she can't relate to how she feels.

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

8. 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 he knows that Clara hates hutsepot more than anything.
(c) Because Clara made it herself and wants the credit.
(d) Because it is horrible and Clara knows he is lying.

9. When Clara is young and throwing fits, which character is the only person who is able to pull her out of her fitful state?
(a) Margarethe.
(b) Ruth.
(c) Henrika.
(d) Iris.

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

11. Who is The Queen of the Hairy-Chinned Gypsies?
(a) An old, hairy woman who wanders around town.
(b) The name of the ghost that lives in the Van den Meer's attic.
(c) The nickname the townspeople have given to Ruth.
(d) The nickname the townspeople have given to Margarethe.

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

13. Who is Luykas?
(a) Schoonmaker's long-lost son.
(b) Mr. van den Meer; it's his Christian name.
(c) Ruth's father.
(d) Iris's father.

14. When she first arrives, what services does Margarethe offer the townspeople in exchange for food and housing?
(a) Ministering.
(b) Painting.
(c) Anything she can think of.
(d) Singing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schoonmaker prefer the Fishers call him?

2. Who eventually prevails in teaching Clara how to hem her own skirt?

3. What does the Master call Mr. van den Meer that crosses a line of acceptability?

4. How does the Master respond to the success of his painting of Clara?

5. What city do the Fishers flee to?

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