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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: "Study" - Part Two: "Tales" .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Nella compares Assendelft with Amsterdam, what does she decide is the only thing she can currently call her own?
(a) Johannes.
(b) The cabinet house.
(c) Peebo the parakeet.
(d) The miniaturist.

2. What is NOT a reason listed among Nella's reasons for accepting Johannes's marriage proposal?
(a) It would have seemed stupid to say no.
(b) There was no other option that to be a wife.
(c) It would have seemed ungrateful to say no.
(d) She found him very handsome.

3. How many dogs reside within the Brandt household?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

4. What were Johannes and Frans both doing when they first met?
(a) Serving in the Navy.
(b) Working as butchers.
(c) Working as sugar purveyors.
(d) Working on VOC ships.

5. Who is heard giggling in the shadows during Marin and Nella's first meeting?
(a) Cornelia.
(b) Johannes.
(c) Frans.
(d) Otto.

Short Answer Questions

1. Nella muses that unlike Marin, her husband Johannes always gives her what type of answer?

2. In what year does the first chapter of Part One take place?

3. What falls from between the pages of a book when Nella is snooping around in the library?

4. What does the narrator list as the one object that "the reformers didn't pull down" (1)?

5. What is Marin's reply when Nella asks what would happen if Agnes and Frans found out about Johannes's homosexuality?

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