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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About whom does Calder worry?
(a) His mother.
(b) Tommy.
(c) Petra.
(d) His grandmother.

2. Why was University School started?
(a) To serve the families of the military.
(b) As an experiment.
(c) To enable unique students to get a quality education.
(d) To see if a school could exist on private funding alone.

3. Why are they calling the place?
(a) To see if "The Lady Writing" is there.
(b) To see if there are any paintings of Vermeer's contemporaries there.
(c) To ask about Vermeer's later life.
(d) To report the dream Petra keeps having.

4. What do Petra and Calder learn about Vermeer?
(a) That he was orphaned at a very young age.
(b) That much is unknown about his life.
(c) That he was color blind.
(d) That he was deaf.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what does Calder feel trapped?

2. Where do Petra and Calder live?

3. How do the students respond to Ms. Hussey's quote?

4. What is Ms. Hussey's class discussing at the opening of Chapter Four?

5. About what is Petra curious?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the University School founded, and how what Ms. Hussey think of this?

2. Who did Calder used to spend his time with, and what does he do now?

3. What does the author challenge the reader to do concerning the artwork and why?

4. Where can the reader find the answers to the clues given in the art work?

5. What sort of books has Ms. Hussey chosen in Powell's Bookstore?

6. What is significant about M & M's?

7. What do Petra and Calder learn about the Lady and what do they decide to do?

8. What do Ms. Hussey and the students discuss in class and what does she quote from Picasso?

9. Why does Calder think he and Petra should call The National Gallery?

10. What is Ms. Hussey's assignment, and what is Calder's first response to the assignment?

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