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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 does Clara get home from the ball?
(a) The prince sends her home in his private carriage.
(b) With Caspar, on his large white horse.
(c) Schoonmaker walks her home.
(d) With the help of the Queen of the Hairy-Chinned Gypsies.

2. What kind of life does Ruth claim Iris led?
(a) A rich life.
(b) A sad life.
(c) A short life.
(d) A regretful life.

3. What changes about Clara's dress after the ball?
(a) It suddenly becomes too small, almost choking her.
(b) It somehow glows even more.
(c) It suddenly becomes too big.
(d) It is in complete tatters.

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

5. Why does Clara tell the queen she is hiding her face?
(a) Because she gets sunburned easily.
(b) Because she is allergic to the flowers.
(c) Because she is horribly disfigured.
(d) Because she is Catholic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the narrator of the Epilogue?

2. In Chapter 4, what ailment does Margarethe claim to have gotten while visiting the Master and seeing his horrible paintings?

3. What piece of furniture does the queen complain about while at the ball?

4. After Margarethe's confession of her crime, where does Clara go?

5. In the Epilogue, what reason does Ruth admit for acting dumb?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. While at the ball, what do Iris and the Master decide is more permanent than beauty?

3. In the Epilogue, what does Ruth surmise happened to the greedy van Stolk?

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

5. What does Margarethe's decreasing vision symbolize?

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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