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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. What holiday is the sixth of December in Seventeenth-Century Holland?
(a) St. Nicholas's Day.
(b) St. Crispin's Day.
(c) King's Birthday.
(d) National Remembrance Day.

2. What does Agnes insist that Nella call her?
(a) Agnes.
(b) Nessa.
(c) Madame.
(d) Aggie.

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. How does Nella go about contacting the miniaturist to request an order?
(a) She goes and meets with the miniaturist in person at his shop.
(b) She sends Otto to deliver a verbal message to the miniaturist.
(c) She slips a letter under the miniaturist's door.
(d) She sends Cornelia to deliver a verbal message to the miniaturist.

5. For what transgression does Jack reveal he has visited the Brandt house this day with violent intentions?
(a) Cornelia has told Jack that he can no longer enter the house when Johannes is not present.
(b) Johannes has told Jack that they can no longer engage in a sexual relationship.
(c) Johannes has told Jack that he can no longer work for the Brandts.
(d) Marin has told Jack that he can no longer work for the Brandts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What item does the person taking a bath have sitting next to the bathtub that shocks Nella?

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

3. When Marin does not introduce herself, for whom does Nella mistake her new sister-in-law?

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

5. Who delivers the package containing Nella's first miniatures?

(see the answer key)

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