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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does Nella take with her for protection when she goes to the Eastern Islands alone?
(a) Marin.
(b) Rezeki.
(c) Dhana.
(d) Johannes.

2. What is NOT a circumstance Cornelia names when accusing the miniaturist of wreaking havoc upon the Brandt household?
(a) Otto is gone.
(b) Johannes is in prison.
(c) Marin is pregnant with Frans's child.
(d) Marin is pregnant with Otto's child.

3. What item does the person taking a bath have sitting next to the bathtub that shocks Nella?
(a) Bottles of liquor.
(b) Candied walnuts.
(c) A pipe.
(d) A box of matches.

4. Whom does Nella try to convince to retrieve the doll thrown into the street by Marin?
(a) Jack.
(b) Rezeki.
(c) Marin.
(d) Cornelia.

5. In what month of 1687 does Part Four begin?
(a) January.
(b) December.
(c) November.
(d) March.

6. With what material does Nella find Johannes had covered the sugar loaves?
(a) Newspaper.
(b) Silk.
(c) Linen.
(d) Banana leaves.

7. The narrator states that after the words greed and flood, what is "the worst word in the city's lexicon" (249)?
(a) Atheism.
(b) Embezzlement.
(c) Fire.
(d) Sodomy.

8. What month does Marin insist is the one in which Johannes absolutely must sail to Venice?
(a) January.
(b) December.
(c) October.
(d) November.

9. Where does Nella place the Nella doll after putting something around its neck?
(a) On her real bed.
(b) In a kitchen drawer.
(c) On the miniature bed in the cabinet house.
(d) In her apron pocket.

10. What is NOT an element Nella understands to be one of the terms of her new marriage?
(a) Enormous wealth.
(b) A lively social life.
(c) A friendship with Johannes.
(d) A lifetime of being untouched.

11. What does Nella announce aloud just before she goes out in the night to speak to the miniaturist?
(a) She says that she wishes for God to protect her.
(b) She summons her guardian angel.
(c) She says she is not frightened.
(d) She says she means no harm.

12. When Johannes tells Marin to stop acting like she owns the household, what reason does he give?
(a) He says that she has always been too covetous for her own good.
(b) He says that all members of the Brandt household share its leadership.
(c) He says that some humility would do her good.
(d) He says that the household belongs to Nella now.

13. What does Marin say when Nella takes the glass from her hand after Nella has found her sobbing?
(a) She tells Nella that she should mind her own business.
(b) She tells Nella that she no longer wants to live.
(c) She tells Nella that the baby will be better off dead.
(d) She tells Nella that she would not have drunk the mixture.

14. What unexpected act does Johannes undertake when he finally returns from Venice?
(a) He takes Nella into the bedroom to consummate their marriage.
(b) He takes Nella in a tight embrace.
(c) He takes Marin in a tight embrace.
(d) He announces that he will begin a renovation of the Brandt house.

15. 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 first trimester.
(b) She believes that the baby is nearly ready to arrive.
(c) She believes that Marin is in her second trimester.
(d) She believes that the baby must be overdue.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the final object through which Jack pushes his dagger before he leaves the Brandt house?

2. What reason does Nella cite to Johannes when he is touched by the item she has placed in her hair the night of his departure to Venice?

3. The Nella doll that Nella receives from the miniaturist is carrying what two items in its tiny hands?

4. Nella remarks that she wants to ask "so many questions" (259) about Marin's pregnancy, but she does not ask any for what reason?

5. What does Cornelia tell Nella that no woman can do?

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