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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT a circumstance Cornelia names when accusing the miniaturist of wreaking havoc upon the Brandt household?
(a) Otto is gone.
(b) Johannes is in prison.
(c) Marin is pregnant with Otto's child.
(d) Marin is pregnant with Frans's child.

2. What is NOT an action Marin admits to taking in order to keep her pregnancy a secret?
(a) She has been wearing a metal girdle.
(b) She has been soaking rags in pigs' blood.
(c) She has been binding her breasts.
(d) She has been wearing loose clothing.

3. When Johannes tells Marin to stop acting like she owns the household, what reason does he give?
(a) He says that she has always been too covetous for her own good.
(b) He says that the household belongs to Nella now.
(c) He says that some humility would do her good.
(d) He says that all members of the Brandt household share its leadership.

4. With what material does Nella find Johannes had covered the sugar loaves?
(a) Banana leaves.
(b) Linen.
(c) Newspaper.
(d) Silk.

5. What is true of ALL of the dolls left on the front step of the Brandt house?
(a) Every person represented by a doll is a person Nella despises.
(b) Every person represented by a doll is a person within Johannes's circle.
(c) Every doll has a small chip on its upper lip.
(d) Every person represented by a doll is a friend of Nella's.

6. What kind of clock is in Nella's bedroom?
(a) A brass pendulum clock.
(b) A cuckoo clock.
(c) A silver pendulum clock.
(d) A golden pendulum clock.

7. What does Cornelia tell Nella that no woman can do?
(a) Be an apprentice.
(b) Own property.
(c) Run a business.
(d) Keep a secret.

8. What item does the person taking a bath have sitting next to the bathtub that shocks Nella?
(a) Candied walnuts.
(b) A pipe.
(c) Bottles of liquor.
(d) A box of matches.

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

10. Whom does Nella take with her for protection when she goes to the Eastern Islands alone?
(a) Rezeki.
(b) Marin.
(c) Dhana.
(d) Johannes.

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

12. What is NOT a characteristic of Jack's that Marin lists as reasons he will not go to the authorities about Otto's actions?
(a) He is proud.
(b) He used to be an actor.
(c) He is a sodomite.
(d) He is English.

13. What month does Marin insist is the one in which Johannes absolutely must sail to Venice?
(a) December.
(b) November.
(c) January.
(d) October.

14. What is the first object through which Jack pushes his dagger while inside the Brandt house?
(a) A painting.
(b) Dhana's belly.
(c) A sheet.
(d) Rezeki's skull.

15. For what reason does Nella allow Cornelia to look inside the cabinet house during the scene when Cornelia finds the doll resembling Marin?
(a) She feels sorry for speaking harshly to Cornelia a moment before.
(b) She wants to get another person's opinion about the miniaturist's identity.
(c) She wants to get another person's opinion about the authenticity of her miniatures.
(d) She does not see Cornelia opening the curtain until it is too late.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Nella discover taking a late-night bath in the Brandt house as Nella leaves to visit the miniaturist?

2. How far along in her pregnancy does Marin say she is when Nella asks?

3. What color are Johannes's eyes?

4. With whom does Nella have an altercation when she is following Otto and goes into the church?

5. Johannes tells Nella that home is where what is?

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