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Question 1: What happened to the girl in the red dress who did a painting with van Ruijven?

Answer: She became pregnant with van Ruijven's child.

Question 2: When did the assisting of Vermeer start for Griet?

Answer: When she bought the bone black and ocher from the apothecary.

question 3: How was Griet's father blinded?

answer: in a kiln fire at the the tile factory he worked at.

question 4: What was on the tile that was praised as "the most beautiful tile he'd ever painted", by Griet's father?

answer: a boy and a girl holding hands, Griet and her brother.

Question 5: Who is Griet's mistress?

answer: Katerina

Question 6: What did Katerina"s daughter steal from Griet?

answer: Griet's comb

Question 7: What did Griet's father give to her before she left home?

answer: A tile with a picture of a boy and girl on it

Question 8 : Who did Griet fear ?

answer: Van Ruijven

Question 9: Why did Vermeer not want to paint Griet with Van Ruijven?

Answer: Vermeer saw the interest that Van Rujiven took in Griet and remembered how the last time he did the same type of painting, Van Ruijven impregnated his maid. He did not want this to happen to Griet because He wanted Griet himself.

Question 10: What was the significance of the pearl earring in the book?

Answer: When Vermeer was painting Griet he wanted her to wear the earring to complete the painting. But it showed that when he did he would ruin Griet's image among the town and also he would simply lose interest in her.