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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. For how many days does Nella pretend to sleep when Marin comes to sit on the end of the bed?
(a) 3.
(b) 12.
(c) 7.
(d) 2.

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

4. Who is the only person in Nella's life who enjoys bringing up and discussing the past?
(a) Nella's mother.
(b) Johannes.
(c) Agnes.
(d) Nella's father.

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

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

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

8. 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.

9. Who delivers the package containing Nella's first miniatures?
(a) The miniaturist.
(b) Otto.
(c) Johannes.
(d) Jack.

10. What is NOT one of the items Nella requests in her first order from the miniaturist?
(a) A dog.
(b) A piece of marzipan.
(c) A betrothal cup.
(d) A lute.

11. In order for Johannes to feel his wife's encouragement, what plan does Nella make?
(a) She plans to make him a special shirt.
(b) She plans to visit Johannes at his work.
(c) She plans to write him a list of all the ways she loves him.
(d) She plans to sit him down so they can discuss their sexual problems openly.

12. How old is Johannes at the time of his and Nella's wedding?
(a) 43.
(b) 29.
(c) 39.
(d) 21.

13. What does Marin say that her society does to homosexuals like Johannes?
(a) She says they drown them.
(b) She says they excommunicate them.
(c) She says they are stripped of all property and business.
(d) She says they burn them.

14. Marin tells Nella that women can do nothing, and that only if they are very lucky can they even do what?
(a) Retain their dignity.
(b) Please their husbands.
(c) Fix the mistakes others make.
(d) Have children.

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

2. In what action does Nella decide the miniaturist is engaging when sending her items she has not ordered?

3. What event is taking place during the novel's prologue?

4. What is Marin's reply to the specific culinary request Nella makes upon her arrival at the Brandt house?

5. How many dogs reside within the Brandt household?

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