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

2. What does the tailor feel for Saskia's mother in Chapter 13?
(a) He has grown to hate her.
(b) He barely remember her.
(c) He still thinks of her once in a while with fondness.
(d) He loves her the same as he did so many years before.

3. What does Elke tell the tailor about the person who made the object in Chapter 11?
(a) He is the ruler of the land.
(b) He is a prize-winning poet.
(c) He is the tailor's enemy.
(d) She is the miller's daughter.

4. Why does Saskia have to sell these things in Chapter 6?
(a) To survive.
(b) As a favor to her neighbor.
(c) So the items do not spoil.
(d) To make money to buy a new dress.

5. What does the tailor discover about his sister-in-law in Chapter 8?
(a) She has remarried.
(b) She has died.
(c) She has given birth to four children.
(d) She is dying.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the tailor tell the young maiden and her father about his leg in Chapter 3?

2. How does Saskia accidentally cut her father's cheek?

3. Where is the tailor sitting at the beginning of Chapter 7?

4. Where does the tailor go at the beginning of Chapter 8?

5. Where does the tailor hope to find refuge in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn't the tailor invite Elke inside his house in Chapter 11?

2. Who is Elke?

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

4. What does Saskia's father do while she is spinning threads in Chapter 12?

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

6. What does Elke bring the tailor in Chapter 11?

7. Why does the tailor want Saskia's spinner in Chapter 11?

8. Why does Saskia cut her father's hair in Chapter 5?

9. What happens when the tailor tries spinning with straw in Chapter 2?

10. Why doesn't Saskia want to trade wheels with Elke in Chapter 12?

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