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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 does Margarethe think is increasing as her sight begins decreasing?
2. What piece of furniture does the queen complain about while at the ball?
3. What does Clara confess, by her father's bedside, about why she felt such a connection with Ruth?
4. What does the title of Chapter 4, "The Gallery of God's Mistakes," refer to?
5. Who is the first person Iris and Ruth find at the ball?
Short Essay Questions
1. What reason does Ruth give for why she often appears inconsequential and stupid in the retelling of the story?
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 are two examples of juxtapositioned themes to her family's story that Ruth gives in the Epilogue?
4. What exactly does Margarethe believe happens to her eyes after she has seen the Master's horrible paintings?
5. What reasoning does Clara use in explaining to Iris why her beauty is actually a curse?
6. In the Epilogue, what does Ruth surmise happened to the greedy van Stolk?
7. How does Margarethe react when Iris catches her seemingly trying to burn Young Woman with Tulips at the ball?
8. During their argument at the ball, how do Iris and the Master call a truce during their argument?
9. How does the reader know Cornelius is depressed after his business venture fails?
10. What happens in the dream Iris has the night of the ball?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
A respect for memory -- or the lack thereof -- is a defining characteristic of many of the novel's characters. Choose two characters from Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister and compare and contrast, using specific examples, whether the characters have a respect for memory and learn from the past.
Essay Topic 2
The Fisher family comprises three very different women. Choose Margarethe, Ruth, or Iris and examine what role they play in the family, whether they are happy in the beginning and end of the text, and how their choices affect the rest of the women in the family unit. Make sure to use quotations from the text to support your position.
Essay Topic 3
Margarethe could easily be described as a selfish character based on her actions throughout the story. A counter argument can also be made, however, that she is a selfless character who continually acts out of a concern to improve the situations of those around her, often at her own expense, suffering, and unhappiness. Present an argument that Margarethe is in fact a selfless character, using at least three specific examples of her selfless actions from the novel.
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