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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 Margarethe think is increasing as her sight begins decreasing?
(a) Her psychic abilities.
(b) Her sense of taste.
(c) Her sense of smell.
(d) Her insight.

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

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. What piece of furniture does the queen complain about while at the ball?
(a) A creaking dance floor.
(b) An ugly piano.
(c) A wooden chair.
(d) A stinky sofa.

5. Who does the Master tell Iris he views as responsible for bringing van den Meer to ruin?
(a) Margarethe.
(b) Iris.
(c) Clara.
(d) Henrika.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of life does Ruth claim Iris led?

2. Who is the narrator of the Epilogue?

3. How does Clara get home from the ball?

4. What key item did Clara leave behind at the ball?

5. What does Clara yell at Nicolaes van Stolk as she departs her house en route to 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. 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?

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

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

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

6. What exactly does Margarethe believe happens to her eyes after she has seen the Master's horrible paintings?

7. What kind of perspective can Ruth offer about what happens to her family?

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

9. 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?

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

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