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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first object through which Jack pushes his dagger while inside the Brandt house?
(a) A sheet.
(b) Dhana's belly.
(c) Rezeki's skull.
(d) A painting.

2. Whom does Nella discover taking a late-night bath in the Brandt house as Nella leaves to visit the miniaturist?
(a) Johannes.
(b) Marin.
(c) Otto.
(d) Jack.

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

4. What is true of ALL of the dolls left on the front step of the Brandt house?
(a) Every person represented by a doll is a friend of Nella's.
(b) Every person represented by a doll is a person Nella despises.
(c) Every person represented by a doll is a person within Johannes's circle.
(d) Every doll has a small chip on its upper lip.

5. How many dolls total are left on the front step of the Brandt household?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Eight.
(d) Six.

6. In what month is Johannes captured by the authorities before he can escape by ship?
(a) December.
(b) April.
(c) January.
(d) November.

7. What is NOT an action Marin admits to taking in order to keep her pregnancy a secret?
(a) She has been wearing a metal girdle.
(b) She has been soaking rags in pigs' blood.
(c) She has been binding her breasts.
(d) She has been wearing loose clothing.

8. What is NOT a characteristic of the Brandt house that Nella lists as she returns from following Otto?
(a) She can hear a woman screaming.
(b) The front door is wide open.
(c) She can hear the sounds of dogs barking.
(d) She cannot hear any human voices.

9. For what reason does Nella allow Cornelia to look inside the cabinet house during the scene when Cornelia finds the doll resembling Marin?
(a) She feels sorry for speaking harshly to Cornelia a moment before.
(b) She does not see Cornelia opening the curtain until it is too late.
(c) She wants to get another person's opinion about the miniaturist's identity.
(d) She wants to get another person's opinion about the authenticity of her miniatures.

10. How does Peebo get out of the Brandt house?
(a) Marin takes him out of the cage and throws him into the street.
(b) Nella decides to set him free in a meadow.
(c) He escapes from the cabinet house and flies out the front door.
(d) He flies out of an open window.

11. Marin tells Nella that walking while pregnant feels like "bending over" (258) what object?
(a) An ironing board.
(b) A market stall.
(c) A medicine ball.
(d) A globe.

12. When Nella hears sobbing and opens Marin's door, what color is the liquid she sees Marin about to drink?
(a) Purple.
(b) Red.
(c) Green.
(d) Clear.

13. How far along in her pregnancy does Marin say she is when Nella asks?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 7 months.
(c) 3 months.
(d) 5 months.

14. When Nella discovers that Marin has been hiding a pregnancy, how soon does Nella believe the baby will arrive?
(a) She believes that the baby must be overdue.
(b) She believes that the baby is nearly ready to arrive.
(c) She believes that Marin is in her first trimester.
(d) She believes that Marin is in her second trimester.

15. Who helps Nella look for Peebo in the streets?
(a) Johannes.
(b) Marin.
(c) Otto.
(d) Cornelia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before going to visit the miniaturist at night, what item does Nella place around the Nella doll's tiny neck?

2. The narrator states that after the words greed and flood, what is "the worst word in the city's lexicon" (249)?

3. What reason does Marin give Nella when she tells Nella not to follow Johannes to the Stadhuis?

4. Within what experience does Marin say people's truest selves are found?

5. On what day does Johannes allow Otto and Cornelia "to dress up like lords and eat at his table" (183)?

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