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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Catharina keep in the studio that needed to be locked?
(a) Family portraits.
(b) Valuable furniture.
(c) Jewelry.
(d) Money.

2. On what day did Griet return home for her first day off since moving away?
(a) Friday.
(b) Thursday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Saturday.

3. How did Griet's family react to the death of the youngest daughter?
(a) They recover quickly.
(b) They are so divided they do not all know about her death.
(c) They never recover from the loss.
(d) They continue living normally out of shock.

4. If Griet were to choose Pieter the Son, what kind of life would she be choosing?
(a) Nomadic life.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Stable domestic life.
(d) Life of vanity and beauty.

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

6. Where did Frans go to start an apprenticeship?
(a) Military.
(b) Art studio.
(c) Tile factory.
(d) Castle.

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

8. What did Griet see in Vermeer's studio that allowed her to feel a deepening connection to him?
(a) His painting set.
(b) His painting in progress.
(c) Paintings of his children.
(d) His religious paintings.

9. What was the name of the Vermeers' butcher?
(a) Petroff.
(b) Pieter.
(c) Markeine.
(d) Geoff.

10. What is the role of a maid in Griet's world?
(a) To remain quiet and work.
(b) To become friends to the employers.
(c) To remain unseen.
(d) To ensure that her employers exercise good judgment.

11. What was Griet able to tell about the visitors just from the timbre of their voices?
(a) They are intelligent.
(b) They are mean.
(c) They are rich.
(d) They are sympathetic to her plight.

12. At first, Vermeer told Griet the clouds were ____________.
(a) Yellow.
(b) Blue.
(c) White.
(d) A combination of many colors.

13. How did Griet overstep her boundaries with Vermeer?
(a) She questioned him.
(b) She asked him to paint her portrait.
(c) She moved an important item.
(d) She looked at his paintings.

14. What is the name of the item that reversed the image of a painting into a mirror?
(a) Camera larga.
(b) Camera miniature.
(c) Camera minusca.
(d) Camera obscura.

15. The plague had been found near the __________________.
(a) Geoff Canal.
(b) Rietveld Canal.
(c) Riverdale Canal.
(d) Crutchet Canal.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Griet perceive her own vanity?

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

3. When Griet arrived home after the plague, where did her parents sit to meet her?

4. Griet was raised as a ____________.

5. When Pieter the Son came to visit Griet, whom did she feel watching them?

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