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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Elke?
(a) A fellow tailor who is close to the tailor.
(b) The tailor's neighbor who supports him.
(c) A member of the aristocracy who pities the tailor.
(d) A woman who insists on seeing the tailor create some of his fine yarns.

2. What does Elke believe of the tailor's feelings for Saskia in Chapter 13?
(a) He tolerates her.
(b) He is indifferent towards her.
(c) He hates her.
(d) He loves her.

3. What does the tailor come to believe about Elke in Chapter 11?
(a) She has feelings for him.
(b) She is romantically linked to the King.
(c) She is hiding something.
(d) She is older than she says she is.

4. Why does Elke bring this object to the tailor in Chapter 11?
(a) She thinks he would enjoy its beauty.
(b) She wants to share some of her favorite things with him.
(c) He could use new supplies.
(d) He often complains of being cold.

5. What does the tailor do to the straw to be able to do what he wants with it in Chapter 2?
(a) He cooks it.
(b) He cries on it.
(c) He paints it.
(d) He mixes it with cow dung.

6. Why does the tailor leave his new home at the end of Chapter 7?
(a) He finds that the pub life is not for him.
(b) He realizes that he does not believe in God.
(c) He finds that the vagrants have stolen from him.
(d) He learns that the father and son plan to take a trip without him.

7. How does the tailor feel about the people he has met after a few weeks in Chapter 7?
(a) He feels as though he has become a part of the family.
(b) He resents them.
(c) He thinks they are the lowest form of human.
(d) He thinks they are kind folk who are just down on their luck.

8. Why does Saskia not want to do what her father wants her to in Chapter 12?
(a) She does not want to give up the wheel that her mother has touched.
(b) She finds the tailor to be a little strange.
(c) She dislikes school.
(d) She has nowhere to go.

9. What does Saskia's father take away from her in Chapter 12?
(a) Her mother's wheel.
(b) Her favorite necklace.
(c) A book.
(d) Money.

10. What does Saskia's father discover that shocks him in Chapter 10?
(a) He finds a gray hair on his head.
(b) A stash of gold coins in his attic.
(c) His cellar is nearly empty of gin.
(d) His daughter becomes interested in boys.

11. Where is the tailor told he can find the young maiden on the day she is to give birth?
(a) The church.
(b) The town market.
(c) The garden.
(d) The hospital.

12. What does the tailor take from a local spinner in Chapter 2?
(a) Her low wheel.
(b) Her ring.
(c) Her book of secrets.
(d) Her yarn.

13. Who does the tailor ask about when Elke shows him the object in Chapter 11?
(a) Elke.
(b) The King.
(c) The spinner.
(d) The miller.

14. What does she plan to do to fulfill her promise to herself in Chapter 12?
(a) Seek revenge on her father.
(b) Apologize to her father.
(c) Visit the tailor.
(d) Buy the wheel back.

15. Who does the object that Elke brings to the tailor belong to?
(a) The king.
(b) Elke.
(c) The miller.
(d) Saskia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Elke give to Saskia's father in Chapter 12?

2. Where does the young maiden live in Chapter 4?

3. What is Saskia unable to resist doing in Chapter 12?

4. Why do the tailor and Elke meet where they do in Chapter 11?

5. How do the people who the tailor has recently met feel about the tailor?

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