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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. What does Nella do when she sees Johannes engaged in a sex act with someone else?
(a) She runs away.
(b) She becomes catatonic.
(c) She screams.
(d) She faints.

2. What is NOT a symptom of her father's dwindling financial status listed by Nella?
(a) The family had no longer drunk wine.
(b) The soup had thinned.
(c) The meat had gotten scraggier.
(d) The servants had fallen away.

3. What does Rezeki's name mean?
(a) Fortune.
(b) Excellence.
(c) Good will.
(d) Mercy.

4. How does Nella come to own the cabinet house?
(a) It is a wedding present from Nella's mother.
(b) It is a wedding present from Marin.
(c) It is a wedding present from Johannes.
(d) She finds it in the attic of the Brandt house and claims it as her own.

5. When Marin says that the Brandts had sent their second best barge after Nella, whom does she say is using the family's best barge?
(a) Otto.
(b) Marin.
(c) Johannes.
(d) Jack.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main difference Nella sees between the maids back in Assendelft and Cornelia?

2. How many dogs reside within the Brandt household?

3. How much younger does Nella decide she is than Marin?

4. For how many days does Nella pretend to sleep when Marin comes to sit on the end of the bed?

5. What feeling does Nella have upon first arriving at the Brandt house when no one will answer the door?

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