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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Ten and Eleven.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is significant about the number twelve in the story?
(a) There are twelve major characters.
(b) The book can be logically divided into twelve story lines.
(c) It takes twelve geometric shapes to create rectangles.
(d) There are twelve major events.

2. What is significant about the Art Institute in Chicago for Petra and Calder?
(a) It is where "The Lady Writing" was kept until about two years earlier.
(b) It is close to their home and they can visit it easily.
(c) It is where "The Lady Writing" is due to arrive.
(d) It is scheduled to be closed for several months for remodeling.

3. What is delivered to three different people?
(a) Three cell phones.
(b) Three pizzas.
(c) Three letters.
(d) Three umbrellas.

4. From whom does Calder receive a letter?
(a) A company he wrote about a new game idea.
(b) Tommy.
(c) A company he wrote about pentominoes,
(d) His cousin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Petra and Calder learn in Chapter Eleven?

2. How is Calder's home described?

3. In what city is the novel set?

4. About what is Petra curious?

5. What is the purpose of the book "Chasing Vermeer"?

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