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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: "Escape" - Part Four: "The Actor".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who helps Nella look for Peebo in the streets?
(a) Cornelia.
(b) Johannes.
(c) Otto.
(d) Marin.

2. What instrument does Nella play during the performance for the Meermanses?
(a) Xylophone.
(b) Trumpet.
(c) Lute.
(d) Piano.

3. When Nella discovers that Marin has been hiding a pregnancy, how soon does Nella believe the baby will arrive?
(a) She believes that Marin is in her second trimester.
(b) She believes that Marin is in her first trimester.
(c) She believes that the baby is nearly ready to arrive.
(d) She believes that the baby must be overdue.

4. What is NOT a way in which Marin's manner is described just after Frans's menacing announcement?
(a) With a spiritless voice.
(b) Limp.
(c) Reluctantly hopeful.
(d) Dead-eyed.

5. Marin tells Nella that women can do nothing, and that only if they are very lucky can they even do what?
(a) Please their husbands.
(b) Have children.
(c) Retain their dignity.
(d) Fix the mistakes others make.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who feels responsible for Rezeki's death, even though someone else was her real killer?

2. The narrator states that after the words greed and flood, what is "the worst word in the city's lexicon" (249)?

3. How long does Hole-Face say the miniaturist has been living in town?

4. Whom does Nella try to convince to retrieve the doll thrown into the street by Marin?

5. Before Johannes tries to flee Amsterdam, he tells Nella to guard and watch someone. Of whom is he speaking?

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