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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: "Eight Dolls" - "Part Three: "Souls and Purses".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were Johannes and Frans both doing when they first met?
(a) Working on VOC ships.
(b) Serving in the Navy.
(c) Working as sugar purveyors.
(d) Working as butchers.

2. Over what action does Nella feel shame after she finds out that the miniaturist is a woman?
(a) For sending the miniaturist a bottle of cologne.
(b) For assuming that women cannot be craftspeople.
(c) For thinking of the miniaturist as an old man with a beard.
(d) For addressing the miniaturist as a Sir in her correspondence.

3. What does Nella do when she sees Johannes engaged in a sex act with someone else?
(a) She runs away.
(b) She faints.
(c) She becomes catatonic.
(d) She screams.

4. What instrument does Nella play during the performance for the Meermanses?
(a) Lute.
(b) Trumpet.
(c) Xylophone.
(d) Piano.

5. Whom does Nella see engaging in oral sex with Johannes when she visits his work?
(a) The miniaturist.
(b) Frans.
(c) Otto.
(d) Jack.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before going to visit the miniaturist at night, what item does Nella place around the Nella doll's tiny neck?

2. Who is heard giggling in the shadows during Marin and Nella's first meeting?

3. In her frustration, Nella thinks to herself at one point that whenever she searches for the miniaturist, she finds only what instead?

4. What is the final object through which Jack pushes his dagger before he leaves the Brandt house?

5. Who feels responsible for Rezeki's death, even though someone else was her real killer?

(see the answer key)

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