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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. For what was Cornelia punished?
(a) Hiding.
(b) Stealing.
(c) Talking back to her mother.
(d) Hitting Griet.

2. Whose clothes did Vermeer want Griet to wear for the portrait?
(a) Catharina's.
(b) Cornelia's.
(c) Griet's mother's.
(d) Tanneke's.

3. What was the color of the second piece of fabric for Griet's hair?
(a) Brown.
(b) Purple.
(c) Green.
(d) Blue.

4. What did Griet think about the box Vermeer used when painting?
(a) She found it amazing and beneficial.
(b) She pretended that it did not exist.
(c) She believed it to be witchcraft and was scared.
(d) She wanted to use it herself.

5. When Griet arrived home after the plague, where did her parents sit to meet her?
(a) On the porch.
(b) In the living room.
(c) Near the River.
(d) Huddled around a fire in the kitchen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Catharina consider moving Griet from the attic room?

2. What does the "camera" symbolize?

3. What caused Griet to stop missing Vermeer painfully?

4. Who told Vermeer that he should paint Griet?

5. What was the butcher's daughter doing in Vermeer's new painting?

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