Girl in Hyacinth Blue Study Guide 1. What are the pigeons symbols for in the A Night Different from All Other Nights vignette of the Girl in Hyacinth Blue? 2. What is the painting a symbol for in Adagio? 3. What is the painting a symbol for in Love Enough? 4. How is the story told in Hyacinth Blues? 5. What is the theme of Morningshine? 6. What is the probable fate of the baby girl born in The Personal Papers of Adriaan Kuypers? 7. According to Still Life why did Vermeer paint? 8. In Magdalena Looking, why doesn’t Magdalena speak while her portrait is being painted? 9. In the Love Enough vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue, what proof does Cornelius Englebrecht have that his painting is an unknown Vermeer? 10. Why has Cornelius kept to himself for most of his life in the Love Enough vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue? 11. What does Cornelius decide in the Love Enough vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue, to do with the portrait to make up for his father’s actions? 12. In the Love Enough vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue, what part does the art teacher Richard play? 13. In A Night Different from All Other Nights of Girl in Hyacinth Blue who is the owner of the painting? 14. Why is it necessary for the pigeons to die in A Night Different from All Other Nights of Girl in Hyacinth Blue? 15. In A Night Different from All Other Nights of Girl in Hyacinth Blue which character connects the story with Love Enough? 16. In A Night Different from All Other Nights of Girl in Hyacinth Blue why does Hannah like the painting so much? 17. Why does Hannah appear “sullen” in A Night Different from All Other Nights of Girl in Hyacinth Blue? 18. In A Night Different from All Other Nights of Girl in Hyacinth Blue, why does Hannah kill the pigeons? 19. In the Adagio vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue Johanna and Fritz have announced 20. In the Adagio vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue Laurens tells Digna about 21. Why had Laurens failed to meet Tanneke at the tram station in the Adagio vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue? 22. In the Adagio vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue the painting is called 23. In the Adagio vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue during his solitary walk Laurens realizes that his attachment to the painting is because 24. In the Hyacinth Blues vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Claudine and her husband, Gerard, are of ______________________ nationality. 25. The Hyacinth Blues vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue takes place during the reign of 26. The painting is given to Claudine in the Hyacinth Blues vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue, because 27. Claudine feels in the Hyacinth Blues vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue that her marriage has failed because 28. Claudine considers an affair with Monsieur le C­ in the Hyacinth Blues vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue because 29. In the Hyacinth Blues vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Claudine’s favorite flower is 30. The provenance of the painting is lost in the Hyacinth Blues vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue because 31. The Morningshine vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue is so titled because 32. In the Morningshine vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue, why does Saskia want to keep the painting so badly? 33. What directions are the family given about the painting in the Morningshine vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue? 34. In the Morningshine vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue, why does Stijn seem to have given up hope? 35. In the Morningshine vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue, what betrayal does Saskia commit against her husband? 36. Who is the artist of the painting according to the papers left for Saskia and Stijn in the Morningshine vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue? 37. In the Morningshine vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue, what does her mother tell Saskia when she goes to her with her dilemma? 38. Why is the relationship between Saskia and Stijn in the Morningshine vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue, never going to be the same again? 39. What information about the From the Personal Papers of Adriaan Kuypers vignette is alluded to in the Morningshine vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue? 40. In the From the Personal Papers of Adriaan Kuypers vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue Uncle Hubert’s business is in the _____________________. 41. In the From the Personal Papers of Adriaan Kuypers vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue Aletta’s great­great­grandfather was a _______________________. 42. From the information given in From the Personal Papers of Adriaan Kuypers vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue the reader can infer that Aletta was raised 43. Aletta assumes in the From the Personal Papers of Adriaan Kuypers vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue that Adriaan plans to marry her because of their intimacy, to seal this compact she gives him 44. In the From the Personal Papers of Adriaan Kuypers vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue Aletta’s baby girl suffers from a 45. Character traits of Aletta’s in From the Personal Papers of Adriaan Kuypers vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue included 46. In From the Personal Papers of Adriaan Kuypers vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue the reader knows that Adriaan is still thinking about his son 47. Why didn’t Adriaan and Aletta leave Delfzijl in From the Personal Papers of Adriaan Kuypers vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue? 48. The townspeople felt they were protecting ___________________ by hanging Aletta in From the Personal Papers of Adriaan Kuypers vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue 49. Adriaan comes to Delfzijl in From the Personal Papers of Adriaan Kuypers vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue to 50. In From the Personal Papers of Adriaan Kuypers vignette of Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Aletta is hung for 51. In the vignette Still Life in Girl in Hyacinth Blue the reader discovers 52. Willem attacks his sister Catharina in the vignette Still Life in Girl in Hyacinth Blue because 53. In the vignette Still Life in Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Johannes recognizes that he behaves in a very _____________ manner because of his need to paint 54. Because of Willem’s beating in the vignette Still Life in Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Catharina 55. Why does Johannes hesitate in the vignette Still Life in Girl in Hyacinth Blue to paint Magdalena? 56. In the vignette Still Life in Girl in Hyacinth Blue, ______________________ has bought several of Vermeer’s paintings 57. In the vignette Still Life in Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Johannes mother owns a tavern named 58. According to the vignette Still Life in Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Vermeer became a Catholic 59. In the Magdalena Looking vignette of Girl in Blue Hyacinth the first owner of Still Life was 60. In the Magdalena Looking vignette of Girl in Blue Hyacinth readers learn that the model for Girl with a Pearl Earring was 61. It is Magdalena’s dream to become a _____________________ in the Magdalena Looking vignette of Girl in Blue Hyacinth. 62. How long did it take to complete the painting in the Magdalena Looking vignette of Girl in Blue Hyacinth? 63. In the Magdalena Looking vignette of Girl in Blue Hyacinth the reader learns that Johannes quits painting when 64. The one thing Magdalena asks to inherit in the Magdalena Looking vignette of Girl in Blue Hyacinth is 65. In the Magdalena Looking vignette of Girl in Blue Hyacinth we find that the girl in the portraits life has been 66. Who does Magdalena see buying the painting in the Magdalena Looking vignette of Girl in Blue Hyacinth? 67. In the Magdalena Looking vignette of Girl in Blue Hyacinth, Magdalena does not approach the couple that bought the painting because (3 answers) 68. Identify the following: a. Cornelius Englebrecht
h. Johannes van der Meer b. Richard
i. Stijn
c. Otto Englebrecht
j. Saskia
d. Hannah Vrendenburg
k. Jantje
e. Sol Vrendenburg
l. Rika
f. Laurens van Luyken
m. Hubert
g. Digna
n. Aletta
o. Tanneke
u. Pieter Claesz van Ruijven
p. Nicholaes
v. Magdalena
q. Claudine
w. Maria Thin r. Gerard
x. Willem Thin
s. Agatha Van Solms
y. Adriaan Kuypers t. Tobias Vrendenburg
z. Catharina van der Meer 69. “People who would be that close to her, .... a matter of a few arms’ lengths, looking, looking, and they would never know her.” is the statement that closes the novel, Girl in Hyacinth Blue. Discuss how this summarizes the vignettes using specific examples from at least three.