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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 The Girl of Ashes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Iris propose getting Clara out of the house?
(a) By hiding her underneath Ruth's biggest dress.
(b) By sneaking out at night when no one is awake.
(c) By just having her walk out the front door.
(d) By sneaking her out in a wheelbarrow.

2. Who is Rebekka?
(a) A girl who has a condition similar to Ruth's.
(b) A young girl Iris befriended in the neighborhood.
(c) Margarethe's long-lost sister.
(d) A cook hired to help in the van den Meer household.

3. When the town's river freezes over, how do Clara and Iris share their one pair of skates?
(a) They take turns using the skates.
(b) They decide not to use them at all.
(c) Clara lets Iris use them both as a special treat.
(d) Each girl takes one skate apiece.

4. What kind of paintings does Schoonmaker secretly paint?
(a) Paintings of nature.
(b) Modern, abstract paintings.
(c) Paintings with bad words hidden in them.
(d) Paintings of maimed and deformed people.

5. What does Caspar tell Iris and Clara while they are out ice skating?
(a) That they look like sisters.
(b) That they shouldn't go too far away.
(c) That they are girls and shouldn't sweat so much.
(d) That they they both look beautiful on the ice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Iris worried about how Henrika and Margarethe interact?

2. How is Iris initially described in the novel?

3. When the book begins, who is the narrator?

4. Who is the American equivalent of Sinter Klaas, the person for whom the girls leave their shoes out one night?

5. What item is Iris given to work with on the first day of her apprenticeship?

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