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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Cornelia tell Nella that no woman can do?
(a) Own property.
(b) Run a business.
(c) Be an apprentice.
(d) Keep a secret.

3. Johannes tells Nella that home is where what is?
(a) Support.
(b) Comfort.
(c) Love.
(d) True identity.

4. 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) Sodomy.
(d) Fire.

5. What does Johannes tell Nella about comfort?
(a) That it is dangerous.
(b) That no one can rely on it.
(c) That it is life's greatest gift.
(d) That it is hard to find.

Short Answer Questions

1. What holiday is the sixth of December in Seventeenth-Century Holland?

2. When Nella hears sobbing and opens Marin's door, what color is the liquid she sees Marin about to drink?

3. How far along in her pregnancy does Marin say she is when Nella asks?

4. Who delivers Nella's next long-awaited package from the miniaturist?

5. What is NOT an action Marin admits to taking in order to keep her pregnancy a secret?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the destruction of the gingerbread families act as an element of foreshadowing?

2. What has changed about Marin's doll in Part Three: "No Anchor"? What does this foreshadow?

3. How much does Nella obtain for the sugar in Part Four: "The Hopeful Loaf"? What are her intentions with the profits?

4. What act does Johannes tell Marin he has undertaken for her and "against the counsel" (219) of his soul?

5. What does Johannes mean when he says that he has married a child and that he has done it for Marin?

6. How do Nella's feelings about privacy change over time within the Brandt household?

7. When Nella receives eight dolls from the miniaturist, what two items is the doll made in her own likeness holding in its tiny hands? What is the significance of each item?

8. For what reason does Hanna have to destroy all of the bakery's gingerbread families?

9. When Nella detects a tenderness and genuine friendship developing between herself and Johannes, what is her reaction?

10. What thought propels Nella to go out in the cold night to demand answers from the miniaturist?

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