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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Eight and Nine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Calder learn when he researches Vermeer?
(a) Vermeer uses the same objects in many of his paintings.
(b) Vermeer started painting when he was three.
(c) Vermeer was scorned as an artist for many years.
(d) Vermeer started painting when he was seventy-seven.

2. What is are pentominoes?
(a) A place when dogs are trained.
(b) Geometric shapes.
(c) A circus.
(d) A place where bad children are kept.

3. Where do Petra and Calder live?
(a) Near each other.
(b) Across the city from each other.
(c) In the same house.
(d) In the same apartment complex.

4. What does Calder's grandmother call a "rainbow bath"?
(a) Surrounding oneself with crystals.
(b) Lying in a room painted with the colors of the rainbow.
(c) Sitting in the sun.
(d) Lying in the solarium.

5. What is Calder doing in his room?
(a) Working on an art project.
(b) Playing with his pentominoes.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Reading.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Louise Coffin Sharpe?

2. What is Petra doing in Powell's one day when she encounters Calder?

3. What interrupts Calder in his writing?

4. What do people supposedly do with the strange events in "Lo!"?

5. What is the purpose of pentominoes?

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