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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 do people spy Philippe doing to Clara when they are in a private room?
(a) Asking for her hand in marriage.
(b) Playing with her hair.
(c) Caressing her ankle with her shoe off.
(d) Kissing her neck.

2. How do Ruth, Iris, and Margarethe get home from the ball?
(a) They steal someone else's carriage.
(b) By carriage.
(c) They have to walk.
(d) They all pile onto one little horse.

3. 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 starts to cry.
(c) She speaks for the first time in the novel.
(d) She spits involuntarily.

4. How did Marie de Medici lose her power?
(a) She lost it when her husband died.
(b) She resigned it.
(c) She never had much power to begin with.
(d) Her own son overthrew her.

5. How does Cornelius react to his grandchildren?
(a) With displeasure.
(b) He doesn't react -- he completely ignores them.
(c) With love.
(d) With suspicion.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who is van Antum?

4. What happened to the Gallery of God's Mistakes after the Master died?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. As they are about to depart for the ball, how does Iris react when Clara promises not to take Caspar from her?

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

4. During their dance at the ball, what does Iris worry about with regard to Caspar?

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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