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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT a symptom of her father's dwindling financial status listed by Nella?
(a) The servants had fallen away.
(b) The soup had thinned.
(c) The meat had gotten scraggier.
(d) The family had no longer drunk wine.

2. Nella recalls that her father had been both wary and what of Amsterdam's wealth and power?
(a) Fearful.
(b) Curious.
(c) Awed.
(d) Hopeful.

3. How does Nella locate the miniaturist who becomes a major and enigmatic part of the narrative?
(a) She sees the miniaturist's shop window and sign.
(b) Cornelia tells her about the miniaturist.
(c) She sees the miniaturist's advertisement in a catalog.
(d) Johannes tells her about the miniaturist.

4. What does the narrator list as the one object that "the reformers didn't pull down" (1)?
(a) The library.
(b) The church roof.
(c) The art museum.
(d) The public market.

5. What physical injury does Marin inflict on Nella when she finds Nella snooping within the library?
(a) She fractures Nella's arm.
(b) She bruises Nella's arm.
(c) She yanks out some of Nella's hair.
(d) She fractures Nella's finger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marin say that her society does to homosexuals like Johannes?

2. What is NOT an expectation of life in the Brandt household that Nella says she would do anything to remove from her head?

3. To Nella's surprise, Marin tells her that what object will protect the Brandt household in the face of Johannes's homosexuality?

4. In what action does Nella decide the miniaturist is engaging when sending her items she has not ordered?

5. For what reason does Hole-Face say he does not and will not speak to the miniaturist?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the circumstances of Nella's arrival at the Brandt house that are troubling to her?

2. Describe the character of Agnes Meerman.

3. Describe Marin's character.

4. How do Marin's and Nella's views of Nella's situation in the Brandt household differ?

5. What is the significance of Nella's lute performance during the Meermans' visit?

6. How does Nella feel when Marin reveals that she has known all along that her brother Johannes is gay?

7. What does Nella mean when she opines that "home is nowhere" (114) for her now?

8. What is ironic about Nella's mother's comment that there is only one kind of wife?

9. What does the herring served within the Brandt household symbolize?

10. Describe Nella's first kiss with Johannes.

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