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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. What sign does Calder carry to hide the painting?
(a) A "slippery when wet" sign.
(b) None.
(c) A sign from the last production in the theater.
(d) A tornado shelter sign.

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

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

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

5. 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 is dark.
(d) It resembles some of Vermeer's paintings.

Short Answer Questions

1. From whom does Calder receive a phone call?

2. Who does Petra see with a package in his arms?

3. Where are Petra and Calder sitting at the opening to Chapter Sixteen?

4. What does Petra wonder about Ms. Hussey and Mrs. Sharpe?

5. Why do Petra and Calder pretend this assignment?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Petra enters her kitchen the next morning?

2. How do Petra and Calder manage to have access to some of the hidden areas of the school?

3. Who do Petra and Calder see on their way to school and what does she give them?

4. Why do Petra and Calder run out of Delia Dell Hall and what do they decide to do?

5. What do Calder and Petra wonder as they sit in Gracie Hall?

6. How is Ms. Hussey's class metamorphosing?

7. What does Petra find near Mrs. Sharpe's home?

8. What is significant about the number twelve?

9. What happens to Ms. Hussey in Chapter Fifteen?

10. Where does Calder manage to be left behind and what does he find?

(see the answer keys)

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