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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Four and Five.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Petra start looking for in the world around her?
(a) Symmetry.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Meaning.
(d) Art.

2. Who are Calder and Petra?
(a) Two students in Ms. Hussey's class.
(b) Brother and sister.
(c) Petra is in Ms. Hussey's class and Calder is in a rival classroom.
(d) Two cousins.

3. What does Petra find at her home?
(a) A correlation between truth and beauty.
(b) A great deal of art.
(c) Meaning in the everyday things she uses.
(d) Very little art.

4. What is Ms. Hussey's class discussing at the opening of Chapter Four?
(a) How math is related to art.
(b) About visiting the museum of natural history.
(c) The trip to the art museum.
(d) Whether to have a second trip to the zoo.

5. What most interests Calder?
(a) Sports.
(b) Music.
(c) Math and pentominoes.
(d) Biology.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the weather like at the opening of the novel?

2. According to the artist quoted, what also tells the truth?

3. What are two topics that the reader learns about in "Chasing Vermeer"?

4. What is Ms. Hussey teaching?

5. What artist does Ms Hussey quote?

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