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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. 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.

2. How much of the van den Meers' fortune was lost in Clara's kidnapping as a young child?
(a) Nearly everything.
(b) Nothing; they got Clara back before a ransom was paid.
(c) One-third.
(d) Half.

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

4. What kind of head piece will Clara wear to the ball to disguise herself?
(a) She is not going to disguise herself at all at the ball.
(b) A Spanish veil.
(c) A hooded cloak.
(d) A mask.

5. How does Ruth react when the Master says, at the ball, that he wishes Margarethe would have burned his painting?
(a) She stares coldly at him.
(b) She spits involuntarily.
(c) She starts to cry.
(d) She speaks for the first time in the novel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What key item did Iris leave behind at the ball?

2. What signal does Marie de Medici give to the prince to tell him he should move on to other ladies while meeting everyone?

3. How many grandchildren does Ruth end up having?

4. What event causes the ball to end abruptly?

5. Why does Clara tell the queen she is hiding her face?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Margarethe react when Iris catches her seemingly trying to burn Young Woman with Tulips at the ball?

2. What exactly does Margarethe believe happens to her eyes after she has seen the Master's horrible paintings?

3. What does Margarethe's decreasing vision symbolize?

4. What does Margarethe suspect is so wrong with the prince that his aunt, the queen, has to set something like the ball up to help him find a wife?

5. Why is Margarethe in such shock when Ruth speaks the word "Ashgirl" when referring to Clara?

6. What are two examples of juxtapositioned themes to her family's story that Ruth gives in the Epilogue?

7. What skill does Clara and Iris count on Caspar using when he goes in search of a dress for Iris for the big ball?

8. As the Epilogue concludes, what kind of painting does Ruth say should be painted of Clara's children?

9. What causes the prince to be initially interested in Iris?

10. In the Epilogue, what reason does Ruth give for burning the painting?

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