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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. After his wife dies, what investment does van den Meer worry has been lost?
(a) His collection of jewelry.
(b) His collection of fine paintings.
(c) His collection of rare books.
(d) A boat full of tulips that investors have given him money for.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Clara is young and throwing fits, which character is the only person who is able to pull her out of her fitful state?

2. Who is Luykas?

3. Who is Pieter ten Broek?

4. What happens during Iris and Clara's attempts to get Clara out of the house?

5. After the successful unveiling of the painting of Clara, what does Margarethe ask Mr. van den Meer for?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the Fishers end up at the van den Meers' house?

2. What leads to a shift of power in the marriage of van den Meer and his wife?

3. What goals is Marie de Medici trying to achieve through the ball?

4. What kind of figure does Ruth become as she begins to get a little older?

5. How does Clara change after the incident at the windmill?

6. What kind of relationship does Margarethe imply that Caspar and the Master have in secret?

7. What lesson does Margarethe want Iris to take away from their discussion about how everyone is trapped in their life by some circumstance?

8. Where does Henrika's wealth come from?

9. When Heer van den Meer first asks for Iris to come to his house and work for him, Iris wishes she could be an inanimate object. What does this symbolize?

10. What is a changeling?

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