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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Cornelius react to his grandchildren?
(a) With love.
(b) With suspicion.
(c) With displeasure.
(d) He doesn't react -- he completely ignores them.

2. What happened to the Gallery of God's Mistakes after the Master died?
(a) It was thrown into a bonfire.
(b) It was donated to a museum.
(c) It was sold for a lot of money.
(d) It was passed down for generations.

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

4. How is Marie de Medici described physically?
(a) As old and overweight -- obese, even.
(b) As beautiful and unusually tall.
(c) As both beautiful and exceptionally intelligent.
(d) As very smart and cunning.

5. What piece of furniture does the queen complain about while at the ball?
(a) A wooden chair.
(b) A creaking dance floor.
(c) A stinky sofa.
(d) An ugly piano.

6. What happens to Margarethe after the ball?
(a) She kills herself.
(b) She is still alive but blind.
(c) She goes insane.
(d) She runs away, so no one is really sure.

7. What does Clara suspect Ruth of doing to Margarethe's linen?
(a) Washing it more than necessary to make sure it's especially clean.
(b) Selling it for something cheaper and pocketing the money.
(c) Putting red pepper on it to make her eyes worse.
(d) Not washing it at all but claiming she did.

8. How did Marie de Medici lose her power?
(a) Her own son overthrew her.
(b) She lost it when her husband died.
(c) She resigned it.
(d) She never had much power to begin with.

9. What does Philippe end up dying from?
(a) Consumption.
(b) A heart attack.
(c) Accidental poisoning.
(d) Murder.

10. Why does Margarethe tell Iris that she is better off being ugly?
(a) Because she won't have to worry about people only liking her for her looks.
(b) Because her husband won't have to worry about her getting ugly since she already is.
(c) Because she won't ever have to worry about getting married.
(d) Because beauty does not help anyone in the world.

11. Who was Jack Fisher?
(a) Iris's father.
(b) Margarethe's first husband.
(c) All of these answers are correct.
(d) Ruth's father.

12. Who does Ruth suspect of kidnapping Clara as a child?
(a) Her own father.
(b) Schoonmaker.
(c) Van Stolk.
(d) Caspar.

13. What does Clara yell at Nicolaes van Stolk as she departs her house en route to the ball?
(a) "It is the crow."
(b) "I will never love you."
(c) "Wait for me, dear friend, until I return again."
(d) "Catch me if you can."

14. How much of the van den Meers' household has been lost because of their debt?
(a) Half of their furniture and all of Henrika's possessions.
(b) Nearly everything they own except for one bed everyone shares.
(c) Nothing. Margarethe refuses to allow anyone to take anything.
(d) Only one bedroom of furniture and one closet of clothes.

15. Who is the first person Iris and Ruth find at the ball?
(a) Clara.
(b) Schoonmaker.
(c) Margarethe.
(d) Caspar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the title of Chapter 4, "The Gallery of God's Mistakes," refer to?

2. What does Margarethe do to continually manipulate van Stolk and van Antum?

3. Who does Iris end up marrying?

4. What family scene does Ruth think would have made a good painting?

5. How does Margarethe suggest Iris take care of the whole family?

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