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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the title of Part 1 of the novel?
(a) Love Gone Wrong.
(b) Young Love.
(c) First Love.
(d) Sisterly Love.

4. What is Saskia unable to resist doing in Chapter 12?
(a) Spying on the tailor.
(b) Spinning a small number of threads on the tailor's wheel.
(c) Stealing money from her father.
(d) Skimming through a school book.

5. What does Elke ask Saskia's father do to in Chapter 12?
(a) Take in the tailor.
(b) Abandon Saskia.
(c) Allow Saskia to go to school.
(d) Exchange his wheel for the tailor's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes across the tailor in Chapter 7?

2. Why does Saskia's father refuse to get out of bed in Chapter 6?

3. What does the tailor want Elke to trade his spinning wheel for in Chapter 11?

4. When does the tailor promise to return the item to the local spinner?

5. What will the tailor do to satisfy the young maiden's father's doubts?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Saskia cut her father's cheek in Chapter 5?

2. What is the tailor's actual motives for asking many questions about Saskia in Chapter 13?

3. Why does the tailor approach the local spinner in Chapter 2?

4. What does Saskia promise herself at the end of Chapter 12?

5. What classic story does "Spinners" borrow elements from?

6. Why doesn't the young maiden's father want the tailor to marry his daughter?

7. What happens at the end of Chapter 4?

8. Who does the tailor meet along the side of the road in Chapter 7 and what does he ask them for?

9. What is the young maiden concerned about in Chapter 1?

10. What does the tailor spend a week looking for in Chapter 2 and why?

(see the answer keys)

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