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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue and Chapter 1 The Obscure Child.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What city do the Fishers flee to?
(a) Haarlem.
(b) London.
(c) The reader never learns the name of the city.
(d) Paris.

2. Who is Pieter ten Broek?
(a) Margarethe's grandfather.
(b) Margarethe's brother.
(c) The girls' long-lost father.
(d) A priest in a local church.

3. How is Ruth initially described in the novel?
(a) As conscientious and unattractive.
(b) As mentally impaired and hard to control.
(c) As beautiful and loving.
(d) As shy and unable/unwilling to speak.

4. Who is a member of the Fisher family?
(a) Iris.
(b) Margarethe.
(c) All of these answers are correct.
(d) Ruth.

5. When the book begins, from what country have the Fishers fled?
(a) France.
(b) America.
(c) England.
(d) Holland.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Margarethe initially described in the novel?

2. Who is Schoonmaker?

3. Who is Caspar?

4. What role does Iris take in Schoonmaker's household?

5. Who is Clara?

(see the answer key)

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