Reading Check and Short Answer Questions on key points are designed for guided reading assignments, in-class review, formative assessment, quizzes, and more.

CHAPTERS 1-4

Reading Check

1. What are Dean Merrill’s “cryptic last words” (Chapter 1)?

2. What does Cornelius’s wife accuse him of as she leaves?

3. What type of animal does Hannah and her family keep?

4. What does Hilde say that the girl in the painting is looking at?

5. What is Johanna not prepared for regarding falling in love?

6. What type of art does Digna make?

7. With what aspect of her physical health does Claudine struggle?

8. Which object does Claudine commission to have added to the painting?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. Summarize Richard and Cornelius’s relationship. How does it progress through the course of the chapter?

2. Describe Cornelius’s relationship with his father. What memories does he have regarding the painting in his house?

3. How did Hannah come to possess the painting? Describe her feelings upon seeing it.

4. What difficult act does Hannah perform? How does this act speak to the larger changing political situation in which she and her family live?

5. What gift does Digna suggest that she and her husband give their newly betrothed daughter? How does Laurens respond to this suggestion?

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