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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What other problem(s) is/are continuing for Petra and Calder?
(a) Petra's father acting strangely and problems Tommy mentioned.
(b) None.
(c) Just problems with Tommy's situation.
(d) Just problems with Petra's father.

2. Where does Calder find "The Lady Waiting"?
(a) In the squad car in his front driveway.
(b) On the merry go round in the play yard at the school.
(c) In the Castiglione's treehouse.
(d) In Mrs. Sharpe's back yard.

3. Where are Petra and Calder sitting at the opening to Chapter Sixteen?
(a) Gracie Hall.
(b) Petra's front porch.
(c) Mrs. Sharpe's front porch.
(d) Outside Powell's Books.

4. Where are Petra and Calder in the opening of Chapter Seventeen?
(a) Near Mrs. Sharpe's home.
(b) In the school library.
(c) In Petra's family room.
(d) In the bushes outside Ms. Hussey's living room windows.q

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

6. What happens after "The Lady Writing" is returned to the National Gallery?
(a) Petra and Calder were invited to a special Vermeer showing at the gallery.
(b) Many of the tags on paintings were changed to be attributed to Vermeer.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Someone challenges if it is really the original.

7. What do Calder and Petra discuss on their walk to school?
(a) If the Lady does not want to be found.
(b) If Ms. Hussey has been accused falsely.
(c) The goodness or lack thereof of the thief.
(d) If Mrs. Sharpe should still be considered a suspect.

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

9. Who does Mrs. Sharpe know who was murdered?
(a) Her husband.
(b) No one.
(c) A friend of hers from college who was a Vermeer scholar.
(d) A renowned French artist who was her second cousin.

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

11. What does Petra see on the ground?
(a) A broken art pencil.
(b) A torn piece of canvas.
(c) A torn piece of paper.
(d) Some dribbles of color.

12. What does Tommy's latest letter to Calder say?
(a) Tommy is ill.
(b) Tommy is moving again.
(c) Tommy's stepfather has deserted them.
(d) Tommy's stepfather is working for the mob.

13. What location at the school do Calder and Petra think is more interesting than King Hall?
(a) Kingdom Hall.
(b) The old school gym.
(c) Brewster auditorium.
(d) Delia Dell Hall.

14. What happens when Petra and the security guard get out of the squad car?
(a) The car blows up.
(b) Someone fires a gun and hits the car.
(c) A man jumps in the car and leaves.
(d) Calder comes running towards them screaming.

15. Who do Calder and Petra encounter in Delia Dell Hall?
(a) The principal.
(b) Ms. Hussey.
(c) The janitor.
(d) The man with the foreign accent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a man with a foreign accent do?

2. What does Calder find that would be a good place to hide a painting?

3. What is becoming a worldwide phenomenon?

4. Why is Mrs. Sharpe asking for police protection?

5. Who broke her leg?

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