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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 The Ball.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What illness is spreading around Haarlem?
(a) Some kind of unknown cancer.
(b) The flu.
(c) Some kind of contagious mental illness that makes people go insane.
(d) The plague.

2. What changes about Clara's dress after the ball?
(a) It is in complete tatters.
(b) It somehow glows even more.
(c) It suddenly becomes too big.
(d) It suddenly becomes too small, almost choking her.

3. What key item did Iris leave behind at the ball?
(a) Her shoe.
(b) Her purse.
(c) None of these answers is correct.
(d) The key she always wears around her neck.

4. Who unexpectedly arrives at the van den Meers' home the morning after the ball?
(a) Caspar and Philippe.
(b) Philippe.
(c) None of these answers is correct.
(d) Caspar.

5. What worries Iris about the Master's "I am going to ruin you yet" comment while he is working on his painting of Clara?
(a) She doesn't know to whom he is referring.
(b) She thinks he is going to commit suicide.
(c) She worries he is planning to kill Mr. Van den Meer.
(d) She thinks he is referring to Margarethe.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Master respond to the success of his painting of Clara?

2. What ultimately leads Clara to leave the house on a regular basis with Iris and Ruth?

3. After her mother's death, why is Clara forced to leave the house?

4. What does Iris find most frustrating about her apprenticeship on the first day?

5. How do Ruth and Iris get to the ball?

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