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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does the tailor have to prove himself to the young maiden's father?
(a) Six months.
(b) By the end of the month.
(c) A year.
(d) Three months.

2. Who catches the tailor in Chapter 1?
(a) The baker.
(b) The tailor's father.
(c) The farmer.
(d) The maiden's brother.

3. What does Saskia not want to do in Chapter 12?
(a) Go to school.
(b) Give up her mother's wheel.
(c) Make friends with the tailor.
(d) Move out.

4. What does the tailor request of the passersby?
(a) Guidance.
(b) Mercy.
(c) Food and money.
(d) Room and board.

5. How does Saskia accidentally cut her father's cheek?
(a) By handing him scissors absentmindedly.
(b) By shoving the cat in his face.
(c) By trying to make his haircut even.
(d) By shaving his beard.

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

7. Who comes across the tailor in Chapter 7?
(a) A poor farmer and his son.
(b) Some priests.
(c) A pair of vagrants.
(d) A barmaid and a drunk.

8. When does the tailor promise to return the item to the local spinner?
(a) In a month.
(b) In six months.
(c) In a week.
(d) In a year.

9. Where is the tailor sitting at the beginning of Chapter 7?
(a) In a field.
(b) The side of the road.
(c) In a pub.
(d) In a church.

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

11. Where are the young maiden and the tailor at the beginning of the story?
(a) In a farmer's barn.
(b) Swimming in a pond.
(c) In the young maiden's house.
(d) In an abandoned shed.

12. What does the tailor try to sell in Chapter 8?
(a) His spinning wheel.
(b) His Bible.
(c) His yarns.
(d) His watch.

13. Why does this happen to the tailor's leg in Chapter 2?
(a) He had been building a table for his house.
(b) He had been climbing in the woods.
(c) He wanted to declare his love for the young maiden.
(d) He had been working very hard.

14. Who does Elke work for?
(a) Her husband.
(b) The King.
(c) Herself.
(d) The town gossip.

15. What does Elke give to Saskia's father in Chapter 12?
(a) A letter from the tailor.
(b) Yarn.
(c) Money.
(d) The tailor's wheel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Elke have the tailor live?

2. What does the miller encourage Saskia to do in Chapter 12?

3. How does the young maiden die?

4. What does Saskia ask Dagmar's mother to help her do in Chapter 9?

5. Who does the young maiden's father want her to marry?

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