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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Johannes tell Nella that no one can really do with his wealth?
(a) Locate it.
(b) Appreciate it.
(c) Hide it.
(d) Touch it.

2. 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 sending the miniaturist a bottle of cologne.
(c) For assuming that women cannot be craftspeople.
(d) For thinking of the miniaturist as an old man with a beard.

3. Who drags Nella out of the room after Nella discovers Johannes engaged in oral sex with someone else?
(a) Otto.
(b) Johannes.
(c) Cornelia.
(d) Marin.

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

5. When Marin decides that the cabinet house is too large to stay in the hall, where does she put it?
(a) In Nella's room.
(b) In the conservatory.
(c) In the parlor.
(d) In the best kitchen.

6. Who is the focus of the event taking place within the novel's prologue?
(a) Marin.
(b) Nella and Johannes.
(c) Cornelia.
(d) Johannes.

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

8. How much younger does Nella decide she is than Marin?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 20 years.
(c) 15 years.
(d) 5 years.

9. What is Marin's reply to the specific culinary request Nella makes upon her arrival at the Brandt house?
(a) She says that sugar makes people's souls grow sick.
(b) She says that dairy foods corrupt the bodily functions.
(c) She says that herring is a living being that should not be consumed.
(d) She says that figs and sour cream foster gluttony.

10. 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) Jack.
(b) Johannes.
(c) Otto.
(d) Marin.

11. 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.

12. 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) She found him very handsome.
(c) There was no other option that to be a wife.
(d) It would have seemed ungrateful to say no.

13. What is Marin's reply when Nella asks about Bergen, Norway?
(a) She says that all they do there is herd sheep.
(b) She says that all they do there is rob tourists.
(c) She says that all they do there is trade fish.
(d) She says that all they do there is hang thieves.

14. How does Nella feel after any conversation with Agnes?
(a) Inspired.
(b) Energized.
(c) Exhausted.
(d) Angry.

15. What falls from between the pages of a book when Nella is snooping around in the library?
(a) A love note.
(b) A handwritten RSVP.
(c) A last will and testament.
(d) A property deed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Agnes tells Nella that Johannes and Frans met when they were how old?

2. From what source does the author provide both of the text's epigraphs?

3. What instrument had Nella played for Johannes during their very brief courtship?

4. What does Marin say that her society does to homosexuals like Johannes?

5. Whom does Nella see engaging in oral sex with Johannes when she visits his work?

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