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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: "Eight Dolls" - "Part Three: "Souls and Purses".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what source does the author provide both of the text's epigraphs?
(a) Cotton Mather's The Invisible World.
(b) The King James Bible.
(c) The 95 Theses.
(d) The Magna Carta.

2. What item does the person taking a bath have sitting next to the bathtub that shocks Nella?
(a) Bottles of liquor.
(b) A pipe.
(c) A box of matches.
(d) Candied walnuts.

3. How many younger siblings does Nella have, and what gender(s) are her siblings?
(a) She has two younger brothers and a younger sister.
(b) She has one younger brother.
(c) She has three younger sisters.
(d) She has one younger brother and one younger sister.

4. How does Nella injure herself the night of her first kiss with Johannes?
(a) She bangs her hip into a table on her way out of the room.
(b) She stumbles on the last two stairs down to the kitchen.
(c) She falls out of bed and hits her head.
(d) She kicks the leg of the cabinet house.

5. When Nella gets back to her room after her first kiss with Johannes, what does she do?
(a) She turns all of the paintings to the wall.
(b) She burns the portrait of Johannes in the fireplace.
(c) She writes in her journal.
(d) She writes a letter to her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Nella turns away from watching Johannes's barge leave, whom does she see standing by the bend of the canal?

2. How is the doll version of Johannes different from the real version, according to Nella?

3. What holiday is the sixth of December in Seventeenth-Century Holland?

4. What instrument does Nella play during the performance for the Meermanses?

5. Who drags Nella out of the room after Nella discovers Johannes engaged in oral sex with someone else?

(see the answer key)

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