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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where can one find answers about the clues in the book?
(a) In the teacher's guide.
(b) In footnotes.
(c) On a website.
(d) In the appendix in the back of the book.

2. Of what are each of these three unsure?
(a) Why they were chosen.
(b) If they want to participate.
(c) If the danger is worth the end result.
(d) How to respond.

3. Who seems to speak to Petra with knowing eyes?
(a) Petra's grandmother.
(b) Ms. Hussey.
(c) Petra's father.
(d) A woman in a dream.

4. What is Calder contemplating?
(a) Ms. Hussey's assignment.
(b) A way to use the pantominoes to demonstrate mathematical principles.
(c) A definition for structure.
(d) How to create a perfect sphere.

5. How does Ms. Hussey seem to Calder and Petra?
(a) Excited.
(b) Nonplussed.
(c) Visibly upset.
(d) Unhappy.

6. Who have arrived outside where Calder is?
(a) Ms. Hussey, Mrs. Sharpe and Mr. Watch.
(b) Petra.
(c) Just Mr. Watch.
(d) Calder's grandmother.

7. What does Petra's father bring up?
(a) Petra's being late for dinner.
(b) A poor grade Petra made in math class.
(c) The mysterious writing in his favorite novel.
(d) A letter.

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

9. What does Calder think when he sees Petra in her Halloween costume?
(a) He thinks she is a bit strange.
(b) He thinks she looks awesome.
(c) The costume looks like one from a book about Vermeer.
(d) He thinks she looks silly.

10. What does Calder love about the box?
(a) The way the grains of wood create a pattern.
(b) The way the lid is hinged.
(c) The smoothness of the wood.
(d) The painting on the cover.

11. In what city is the novel set?
(a) Amsterdam.
(b) New York.
(c) Miami.
(d) Chicago.

12. About what are these three people warned?
(a) That the pursuit of justice is a lonely occupation.
(b) Not to go to the authorities.
(c) There are criminals looking for these people.
(d) That there are many who want to stop them.

13. What artist does Ms Hussey quote?
(a) Picasso.
(b) Michelangelo.
(c) Vermeer.
(d) Gauguin.

14. About what do Petra and Calder worry?
(a) All the problems that seem to be arising at the same time.
(b) If Ms. Hussey is badly injured.
(c) If Petra's father is leaving again on a business trip.
(d) If Calder's grandmother is too old to help them with their investigation.

15. What does Calder feel he is trying to solve?
(a) An intricate math problem using his pentominoes.
(b) A puzzle.
(c) Everyone's problems.
(d) His difficult problem about school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Calder write about as he sits in the sun?

2. From where do the clippings in "Lo!" seem to come?

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

4. What is significant about the Art Institute in Chicago for Petra and Calder?

5. What is in Petra's hair on the way to school the next morning?

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