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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. Marin tells Nella that walking while pregnant feels like "bending over" (258) what object?
(a) A globe.
(b) A market stall.
(c) A medicine ball.
(d) An ironing board.

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

3. The narrator states that after the words greed and flood, what is "the worst word in the city's lexicon" (249)?
(a) Fire.
(b) Embezzlement.
(c) Atheism.
(d) Sodomy.

4. Marin threatens Nella, saying that if Nella leaves the cabinet house empty, she will turn Johannes's gift into a crime of what?
(a) Profligacy.
(b) Larceny.
(c) Sloth.
(d) Gluttony.

5. From what source does the author provide both of the text's epigraphs?
(a) The 95 Theses.
(b) The King James Bible.
(c) Cotton Mather's The Invisible World.
(d) The Magna Carta.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Nella see engaging in oral sex with Johannes when she visits his work?

2. How does Nella go about contacting the miniaturist to request an order?

3. What metaphor does Marin use when telling Nella that she does not understand Marin or Johannes?

4. Who delivers Nella's next long-awaited package from the miniaturist?

5. What is NOT a characteristic of the Brandt house that Nella lists as she returns from following Otto?

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