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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1676, Pages 233 - 248.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the portrait Vermeer paints of a maid for Van Ruijven, what was the woman doing?
(a) Feeding animals.
(b) Drinking wine.
(c) Sitting and writing.
(d) Eating.

2. What was the only piece in the studio that Griet did not clean?
(a) A window sill.
(b) A door knob.
(c) A canister of paints.
(d) A blue ball of fabric.

3. When Pieter the Son came to visit Griet, whom did she feel watching them?
(a) Vermeer.
(b) Cornelia.
(c) Catharina.
(d) Frans.

4. Where did Griet learn she would be sleeping in her new home?
(a) Barn.
(b) Cellar.
(c) Studio.
(d) Bathroom.

5. What was the butcher's daughter doing in Vermeer's new painting?
(a) Packaging meat.
(b) Cleaning up blood.
(c) Pouring water into a basin.
(d) Cutting meat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Griet was raised as a ____________.

2. How did Griet overstep her boundaries with Vermeer?

3. What happened when Griet began to obsess about the plague?

4. Who told Griet that Vermeer only saw the world as he wanted it to be?

5. Who warned Griet not to get caught between Vermeer and van Ruijven?

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