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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what does Mrs. Sharpe seem pleased?
(a) The way the lady haunts Petra's dreams.
(b) The way the children have become so obsessed with Vermeer.
(c) The theft of the Vermeer painting.
(d) That Ms. Hussey is teaching Vermeer.

2. Who broke her leg?
(a) Ms. Hussey.
(b) Petra's mother.
(c) Mrs. Sharpe.
(d) Tommy's mother.

3. What does a man with a foreign accent do?
(a) Picks up a letter Petra and Calder drop.
(b) Accidentally bump into Calder.
(c) Ask Petra and Calder a lot of questions.
(d) Hide in the bushes by Mrs. Sharpe's house.

4. What do the students try to distinguish between various Vermeer paintings?
(a) Which are painted when Vermeer's mother was influential on his choices.
(b) Which are real and which are fake.
(c) Which are painted when Vermeer is suffering from a broken hand.
(d) Which are painted before Vermeer becomes famous.

5. Where does Calder purposely get left behind?
(a) The museum.
(b) The basement at Powell's.
(c) The school basement.
(d) The switchyard.

6. What does Ms. Hussey's class soon resemble?
(a) A space shuttle.
(b) Organized chaos.
(c) A museum and laboratory.
(d) A 17th century studio.

7. What number is associated with odd coincidences?
(a) 11.
(b) 9.
(c) 3.
(d) 12.

8. What makes Petra nervous as they wander this other location?
(a) It is creaky.
(b) It smells like there is something dead inside.
(c) It resembles some of Vermeer's paintings.
(d) It is dark.

9. Why is Mrs. Sharpe asking for police protection?
(a) She receives a letter from the thief.
(b) A vagrant has been bothering her.
(c) Someone broke in to her home.
(d) Her son-in-law has gone berserk.

10. What does the thief say if his demand is not met by that deadline?
(a) He will blow up the Louvre.
(b) Someone will die.
(c) He will destroy "The Lady Writing".
(d) He will blow up the Art Institute of Chicago.

11. What are young people encourage to do in the "After" section?
(a) Study some of the less well known painters.
(b) Pay attention to strange coincidences.
(c) Create their on adventures.
(d) Take up painting.

12. What is becoming a worldwide phenomenon?
(a) Bringing art to the people.
(b) The taking of paintings as hostage for learning.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Reverence for Vermeer.

13. Where do Petra and Calder see Mrs. Sharpe again?
(a) Powell's Bookstore.
(b) Hospital.
(c) The room where the new art gallery is to go at the school.
(d) Museum.

14. To whom are Calder and Petra supposed to give the object from Mrs. Sharpe?
(a) They are to keep it themselves.
(b) Ms. Hussey.
(c) Mr. King.
(d) The principal at their school.

15. How do those caught in the thief's plan feel?
(a) Angry.
(b) Amused now that the scheme was thwarted.
(c) Indignant.
(d) Awful for being duped.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the publication say in conclusion?

2. What does Petra encounter when she walks into the kitchen the next morning?

3. Why do Petra and Calder hold a bake sale?

4. What sign does Calder carry to hide the painting?

5. What has Ms. Hussey received?

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