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

2. Nella muses that unlike Marin, her husband Johannes always gives her what type of answer?
(a) Satisfactory.
(b) Realistic.
(c) Thoughtful.
(d) Interesting.

3. What feeling does Nella have upon first arriving at the Brandt house when no one will answer the door?
(a) She feels as if she is being watched.
(b) She feels as if she is being made fun of.
(c) She feels as if the whole neighborhood is staring at her.
(d) She feels as if she should run away.

4. What object does Marin say that her family has that Nella's family does not, even though Nella's family has an "ancient pedigree" (12)?
(a) A hedge maze.
(b) Fish in their own lake.
(c) A warm, dry house.
(d) Wheat in the food cellar.

5. Over what action does Nella feel shame after she finds out that the miniaturist is a woman?
(a) For addressing the miniaturist as a Sir in her correspondence.
(b) For assuming that women cannot be craftspeople.
(c) For thinking of the miniaturist as an old man with a beard.
(d) For sending the miniaturist a bottle of cologne.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Nella come to own the cabinet house?

3. What does Nella do when she sees Johannes engaged in a sex act with someone else?

4. Who is the focus of the event taking place within the novel's prologue?

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?

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