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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 ultimately leads Clara to leave the house on a regular basis with Iris and Ruth?
(a) All of these answers are correct.
(b) Having to spend all day cleaning.
(c) Being left out of Ruth and Iris's fun adventures.
(d) Having to spend all day with Margarethe.

2. What does Caspar tell Iris and Clara while they are out ice skating?
(a) That they they both look beautiful on the ice.
(b) That they are girls and shouldn't sweat so much.
(c) That they look like sisters.
(d) That they shouldn't go too far away.

3. What does Iris find most frustrating about her apprenticeship on the first day?
(a) That she is far more advanced than the town baker.
(b) That she cannot immediately draw well.
(c) That she has no interest in a religious life after all.
(d) That she is worse with a needle and thread than she originally thought.

4. Who is a member of the Fisher family?
(a) Iris.
(b) Margarethe.
(c) Ruth.
(d) All of these answers are correct.

5. What are Iris and Margarethe a little afraid Schoonmaker will ask Iris to do when they first start working together?
(a) To spend all day in a very hot kitchen.
(b) To beg for money in the streets.
(c) To pose naked while he paints her.
(d) To do very hard, physical labor even though she is very young.

Short Answer Questions

1. What worries Iris about the Master's "I am going to ruin you yet" comment while he is working on his painting of Clara?

2. What item does Ruth try to steal in the marketplace?

3. Who is Schoonmaker?

4. What famous fairy tale does Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister depend on the reader being familiar with?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What revelation does Iris have about her new step-father during his marriage ceremony?

2. What does the title of Chapter 2, "The Imp-Riddled House," mean?

3. What revelation does Iris have about her mother during her mother's marriage ceremony?

4. What new traits does Iris develop after Henrika's death?

5. 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?

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

7. Why does Clara pout about attending the event where her painting is unveiled?

8. How does Heer van den Meer first present Iris to Clara?

9. What is a changeling?

10. Why does Iris ask Margarethe specifically to teach her how to cook and prepare a meal?

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