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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: "Escape" - Part Four: "The Actor".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What emotion does Nella admit feeling when she realizes that she will never engage in sexual activity within her marriage?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Horror.
(c) Relief.
(d) Elation.

2. What is Marin's reply when Nella asks about Bergen, Norway?
(a) She says that all they do there is herd sheep.
(b) She says that all they do there is trade fish.
(c) She says that all they do there is rob tourists.
(d) She says that all they do there is hang thieves.

3. What is NOT a reason listed among Nella's reasons for accepting Johannes's marriage proposal?
(a) There was no other option that to be a wife.
(b) She found him very handsome.
(c) It would have seemed stupid to say no.
(d) It would have seemed ungrateful to say no.

4. How far along in her pregnancy does Marin say she is when Nella asks?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 7 months.
(c) 5 months.
(d) 3 months.

5. When Nella turns away from watching Johannes's barge leave, whom does she see standing by the bend of the canal?
(a) Jack.
(b) Frans.
(c) Marin.
(d) Otto.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who drags Nella out of the room after Nella discovers Johannes engaged in oral sex with someone else?

2. Marin tells Nella that women can do nothing, and that only if they are very lucky can they even do what?

3. Agnes tells Nella that Johannes and Frans met when they were how old?

4. What holiday is the sixth of December in Seventeenth-Century Holland?

5. What item does the person taking a bath have sitting next to the bathtub that shocks Nella?

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