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=** Please post your questions in the following format: Name in bold, colon, questions in regular font. **=

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 * Mrs. Falk:** What is the significance of the vegetables in the first scene of the novel?

What do you make of the awkward relationship between Vermeer and Griet?
 * PERIOD 7**:
 * Traci**: Why does Vermeer seem to hide Griet's job of grabbing the paint supplies and her job of mixing paints? (96, 102)

1.) Why do you think Griet's mother gazed at her and her father shifted in his seat when Griet said, "I don't know what he wants" (p 82.) 2.) Why was Griet shaking from the thought of the knife spinning on her mother's kitchen floor on page 117? **
 * Ali Olsen

1) Why does Vermeer seem to get angry at Griet when men notice her? (81, 83) 2) Vermeer does not seem to treat Griet like the servant the others treat her as. Who does he see her as then? 3) What is the significance of Griet's changing opinion's on tiles vs paintings? (90-91)
 * Brianna:**

1. What does being born in March say about Griet? 2. How has Griet's relationship with her father changed?
 * Alison Goo**:

1) Why does Vermeer dislike when van Ruijven suggests he paint Griet and when Griet says she is going to the butcher's? 2) Why does Vermeer trust Griet so much with delivering painting supplies and making the paint colors? What relationship does Vermeer have with Griet?
 * Logan Chun:**

What does Cornelia have to gain from tormenting Griet?
 * Kim Roy**: Why does Griet portray every relationship she has with a man as romantic? Is she a reliable narrator?

Garrett Bodley: 1) What is the importance of Griet going to the apothecary, and why is it surprising that she does not get canvases too? 2) Why does Vermeer show so much special interest in Griet?

Jared: 1) Is there significance that Griet's father cannot understand what the painting looks like because his tiles are straightforward, while the painting has many undertones? 2) Does Griet's personality parallel the process that Vermeer takes to paint his pictures? 3) Is there a significance in the relationship between Griet's lies and Vermeers involvement in her life?

Daiva: 1) Why is Vermeer embarrassed by his newborn son? 2) Why does Cornelia break Griet's tile in the way she does? Do you think this is a foreshadowing? 3) Why is Vermeer so secretive about Griet's new tasks?

1) Where do you think Griet considers her home is now? 2) Why does Griet need to lie now any more than before? **
 * Preston:

1) What is the significance of Vermeer naming the portrait, "The Baker's Daughter" 2) Pg 97. Why would Griet have been more upset if Cornelia had broken the heads from the bodies, then split the two people apart?
 * Rachael**:

1) Why do you think Vermeer allows Griet to run his errand? What is the significance of this? 2) What is interesting about Vermeer's paintings and use of color? Can this represent something?
 * Lori:**

Rachel:** Why does Griet feel as if she has to hide the fact that she is assisting Vermeer? What do you think about Griet and Vermeer's relationship?
 * PERIOD 8:

What is the significance of Vermeer beginning to paint the day after he studies Griet? (p. 86)
 * Spencer**: Why does Vermeer's touch shock Griet so? (p. 103)

1. What is the significance of March being both "an unpredictable month" (89) and the month Griet was born? 2. How has Papist's Corner changed Griet? i.e. now, she is getting better at lying (92, 107). 3. What is the significance of the color grey? Griet uses the color to describe both Vermeer's eyes and the "angry" sky. **
 * Kelli:

2. Why does Vermeer trust Griet in a way in which he does not even trust his own wife? Do his feelings for Griet go beyond a typical master-servant relationship? Or is Griet creating something that is not really there? **
 * Sara:**
 * 1. "I had offended him, but I did not know how" (85). Was Vermeer really offended my Griet talking with the butcher's son?

Pualani: Why do you suppose Cornelia broke Greit's tile what is the meaning of the way she broke it? Are Vermeer's false colors related to or a metaphor for the characters, relationships or the story?

1. Why does Maria Thins support Griet in secretly assisting Vermeer? (110) 2. Do you think it was difficult for Griet's mother to put her pride aside and encourage Griet to be nice to Pieter? (92) 3. In what way did the vegetables indicate to Vermeer that Griet had an artist's eye? (101)
 * Karla:**

Kelly Ho: 1. Why doesn't Vermeer tell Catharina about Griet working for him? Why is he keeping it a secret? (104) 2. What is the significance of Cornelia breaking the tile that Griet's father gives Griet? What can the broken tile mean? (97)

Tawni Murphy 1. why doesn't Vermeer like it when men notice Griet? (81) 2. What do you make of Greit's and Vermeer's relationship?

Mackenzie Sato: 1. Why is Griet say she is reluctant to set out the colors for Vermeer? (100) 2. Why does Vermeer not make it so that Griet is excused if she gets in trouble for slacking on other work to do his work? ("He says nothing to Catharina" -104) Why can't he make it known? 3. What do you think Vermeer's intentions are with Griet?

1. Is there anything behind Vermeer and Griet's relationship? Is Vermeer aware of it? Griet? 2. What is the significance of the breaking of Griet's tile? Foreshadow?
 * Nestor A:**

Corey Kozuma:
 * 1) What is the significance of Vermer asking for Griets assistance with his artwork?
 * 2) What is happening with the relationship between Griet and her Father?

Nicole P: 1. What are Cornelia's ultimate motives in hurting Griet? 2. What kind of relationship is Griet and the Master beginning to develop?

1. Why does the broken tile hurt Griet so much? Is this supposed to bring more hurt to Griet? Are Fran going to leave just how Agnus did? 2. Why do you supposed the cap is colored blue, violet, and yellow yet the cap is white?
 * Brock:**