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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 unexpectedly arrives at the van den Meers' home the morning after the ball?
(a) Philippe.
(b) Caspar.
(c) Caspar and Philippe.
(d) None of these answers is correct.

2. What do Iris and Clara use as collateral in order to get Clara a gown?
(a) Money Ruth has been secretly hiding away.
(b) Margarethe's fancy new shoes.
(c) The last of their family fortune.
(d) Henrika's jewels.

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

4. Who is van Antum?
(a) A fellow investor of van den Meer's.
(b) A creditor of van den Meer's who wants his money as soon as possible.
(c) A priest.
(d) A tailor.

5. Who is the first person Iris and Ruth find at the ball?
(a) Caspar.
(b) Schoonmaker.
(c) Clara.
(d) Margarethe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Clara confess, by her father's bedside, about why she felt such a connection with Ruth?

2. Who insists on introducing Ruth and Iris to the prince?

3. What ended up happening to Cornelius's finances?

4. What changes about Clara's dress after the ball?

5. How did Marie de Medici lose her power?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Why is Iris surprised to learn that many of the guests at the ball are still talking about her, even after the prince and Clara retire to the private room?

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

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

6. What message is the Master trying to convey when he asks, after showing Margarethe his paintings of hideous people, what she knows about charitable stories from the Bible?

7. Who is Caspar referring to when he initially tells Iris that she hopes she will not marry "the wrong man"?

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

9. In the Epilogue, what does Ruth say about the paintings of Iris's that she admires?

10. How does the reader know Cornelius is depressed after his business venture fails?

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