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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the king threaten to do in Chapter 19?
(a) Kill the miller.
(b) Take Saskia's firstborn baby.
(c) Kill Saskia if she fails him.
(d) Keep Saskia prisoner for the rest of her life.

2. Why does the tailor plan to leave the village for a year in Chapter 28?
(a) So that Elke will not guess his plans.
(b) To avoid Saskia.
(c) To explore the world before having to raise a child.
(d) To meet with an old friend in another country.

3. What does Saskia tell the miller about in Chapter 31?
(a) The king's bad points.
(b) Her life at court.
(c) Her dreams about her mother.
(d) Everything that has happened with the tailor.

4. How does Dagmar feel about Saskia's pregnancy?
(a) She is thrilled.
(b) She is jealous.
(c) She is indifferent.
(d) She is scared.

5. What does the tailor do while spinning in Chapter 17?
(a) He sings.
(b) He coughs.
(c) He watches Saskia.
(d) He cries.

6. How much time passes in Chapter 27?
(a) Weeks.
(b) Hours.
(c) Months.
(d) Days.

7. What does the person who overhears Saskia's conversation in Chapter 31 tell Saskia?
(a) That her mother was a beautiful woman.
(b) That the king is very scary and she should not speak of him negatively.
(c) That the tailor lives in the woods and Elke is the only visitor there.
(d) That she makes the court life more fun.

8. What does Saskia do when the tailor arrives in Chapter 33?
(a) She asks him many questions.
(b) She pretends to be sad.
(c) She smiles and snaps her fingers.
(d) She laughs at him.

9. What does the tailor ask Saskia for in Chapter 20?
(a) Her necklace.
(b) Her firstborn child.
(c) The gold straw.
(d) A lock of her hair.

10. Why does Saskia ask Dagmar to the castle in Chapter 23?
(a) She is lonely.
(b) Dagmar wants to live at court.
(c) Dagmar has nowhere else to go.
(d) Saskia thinks Dagmar will help protect her.

11. What does Saskia refuse to do in Chapter 21?
(a) Babysit the king's children.
(b) Marry the king.
(c) Make the king a robe.
(d) Be the king's official seamstress.

12. What does Saskia have her guards do in Chapter 31?
(a) Kill the tailor.
(b) Watch the tailor and figure out his name.
(c) Arrest the tailor.
(d) Follow Elke.

13. What does the tailor do to his home as he waits for his grandchild to arrive?
(a) He gets rid of all his alcohol.
(b) He buys some livestock.
(c) He adds an extension.
(d) He fixes it up.

14. Who overhears Saskia talking to her father in Chapter 31?
(a) Elke.
(b) The king.
(c) Dagmar.
(d) The tailor.

15. What does the king do after seeing Saskia's work in Chapter 18?
(a) He calls her a witch.
(b) He moves her to a bigger room with more straw.
(c) He has Saskia walk alongside him in a parade.
(d) He has a feast.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the tailor focused on in Chapter 24?

2. Who can Saskia not stop thinking about in Chapter 31?

3. What does Saskia give the tailor in Chapter 17?

4. What happens that Saskia hoped would not in Chapter 29?

5. Why is Saskia angry with the king in Chapter 21?

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