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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 does Clara say she'd rather do than marry van Stolk?
(a) Kill herself.
(b) Become a nun.
(c) Run away to another town.
(d) Remain a housemaid.

2. Before heading to the ball, what do Iris and Clara agree about Caspar?
(a) That he is in love with Clara and they should get married.
(b) That Clara will not try to take him from Iris.
(c) That he really is a jerk.
(d) That he is, in reality, a horrible painter despite all of his experience.

3. What drink does a servant bring to Clara and Philippe when they are in a private room?
(a) Wine.
(b) Champagne.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Water.

4. Who insists on introducing Ruth and Iris to the prince?
(a) Schoonmaker.
(b) Clara.
(c) Dame Pruyn.
(d) Caspar.

5. What causes Cornelius to become so depressed?
(a) His failing business venture.
(b) No one really knows for sure.
(c) An accident in the kitchen that left Clara horribly scarred.
(d) His unhappy marriage to Margarethe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Iris wonder about the night her family fled without their father?

2. What does Caspar accuse Ruth of doing at the ball?

3. How do Ruth and Iris get to the ball?

4. How is Marie de Medici described physically?

5. What do people spy Philippe doing to Clara when they are in a private room?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Master respond to Clara's vote of confidence at the ball, when she says that she is sure his painting will be picked by the queen?

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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