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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What changes about Clara's dress after the ball?
(a) It is in complete tatters.
(b) It somehow glows even more.
(c) It suddenly becomes too small, almost choking her.
(d) It suddenly becomes too big.

3. What key item did Iris leave behind at the ball?
(a) Her shoe.
(b) None of these answers is correct.
(c) The key she always wears around her neck.
(d) Her purse.

4. Who does Iris end up marrying?
(a) The prince.
(b) Caspar.
(c) No one.
(d) Schoonmaker.

5. How do Ruth and Iris get to the ball?
(a) In a private carriage.
(b) They share a bicycle.
(c) Caspar lends them a horse.
(d) They have to walk.

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

7. What does Iris tell Clara that changes her mind about attending the ball?
(a) That she needs to grow up.
(b) All of these answers are correct.
(c) That she is strong, brave, and has a good heart.
(d) That she needs to do something to help her father and her family's situation.

8. What confession of Margarethe's did Ruth overhear one night?
(a) That she murdered Henrika.
(b) That she never loved her children.
(c) The she had hidden money she never let anyone use.
(d) That Clara was, in fact, her real daughter.

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

10. Which item is van Stolk most interested in in the van den Meers' household?
(a) Van den Meer's amazing library of unique books.
(b) Margarethe.
(c) The Young Woman with Tulips painting.
(d) The nice pots and pans in the kitchen.

11. 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 poke in the side.
(b) A kick under the table.
(c) A little handwritten note.
(d) A slight cough.

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

13. What drink does a servant bring to Clara and Philippe when they are in a private room?
(a) Champagne.
(b) Wine.
(c) Water.
(d) Coffee.

14. What non-family member do Ruth, Iris, and Clara enlist in helping them get Clara to the ball?
(a) The Master.
(b) Van Stolk.
(c) Clara's father.
(d) Caspar.

15. Who does Iris and Ruth's hair for the ball?
(a) They each do their own hair.
(b) A hairdresser.
(c) Margarethe.
(d) Clara.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color dress does Clara wear to the ball?

2. How much of the van den Meers' fortune was lost in Clara's kidnapping as a young child?

3. Who is van Stolk?

4. Who unexpectedly arrives at the van den Meers' home the morning after the ball?

5. What kind of life does Ruth claim Iris led?

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