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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What role does Iris take in Schoonmaker's household?
2. What kind of mother is Henrika?
3. When they are young, what does Clara tell Iris is the only thing that makes her happy?
4. After her mother's death, why is Clara forced to leave the house?
5. Why are the Master and Caspar invited over for dinner with the newly formed van den Meer family?
Short Essay Questions
1. What kind of relationship does Margarethe imply that Caspar and the Master have in secret?
2. What kind of figure does Ruth become as she begins to get a little older?
3. What lesson does Margarethe want Iris to take away from their discussion about how everyone is trapped in their life by some circumstance?
4. What does the reader learn about Ruth's character and personality by the end of Chapter 1?
5. What does the title of Chapter 2, "The Imp-Riddled House," mean?
6. What painting does Heer van den Meer commission Schoonmaker to paint?
7. When Heer van den Meer first asks for Iris to come to his house and work for him, Iris wishes she could be an inanimate object. What does this symbolize?
8. Where does Henrika's wealth come from?
9. How does Clara change after the incident at the windmill?
10. What is a changeling?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Choose three passages from Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister that you consider to be the three most important. Analyze each passage for tone, diction, and any other literary devices that Maguire might use within them, such as foreshadowing or symbolism. What makes each scene one of the most important? How does Maguire convey the high level of importance of each passage? Which literary devices does Maguire use to structure and create each passage, and how would each scene be different without the use of one of those devices?
Essay Topic 2
While one of the central themes of Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister is the exploration of beauty, a smaller theme is that of ugliness. Choose three examples of ugliness (characters, actions, behavior, paintings, etc.) in the novel and discuss how Maguire uses each to convey a message about what ugliness truly is, how people convey it, and how people react to it.
Essay Topic 3
One of the central themes of Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister is the exploration of beauty. What is Maguire's definition and concept of beauty? What are society's definitions of beauty at the time the novel is taking place? Choose one character in the novel who is traditionally beautiful and discuss what makes him or her so; choose one character in the novel who is truly, but not traditionally, beautiful, and discuss what makes him or her so.
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