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

2. As the ball approaches, what part of the van den Meer house does Clara often refuse to leave?
(a) The kitchen.
(b) Her father's bedside.
(c) Her bedroom.
(d) The tulip shed in the backyard.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who does Iris dance with first at the ball?

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

5. Who is the narrator of the Epilogue?

Short Essay Questions

1. During their argument at the ball, how do Iris and the Master call a truce during their argument?

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

3. What does the trail of blood that follows Clara after the ball indicate?

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

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

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

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

8. What memory does Ruth say burdened Iris her entire life?

9. What reasoning does Clara use in explaining to Iris why her beauty is actually a curse?

10. What does Ruth have to say about beauty in the Epilogue?

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