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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. Besides the writing itself, what gives clues to aid in solving the mystery?
(a) The artwork.
(b) The chapter titles.
(c) The individual vocabulary words.
(d) The appendix.

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

3. What helps Calder think?
(a) Creating stories in his head.
(b) Meditation.
(c) Listening to music.
(d) Working with the pentominoes.

4. What does Calder feel he is trying to solve?
(a) His difficult problem about school.
(b) Everyone's problems.
(c) An intricate math problem using his pentominoes.
(d) A puzzle.

5. What does Calder say all the oddness probably is?
(a) Petra's imagination running viral.
(b) Someone perpetuating a hoax.
(c) Another dimension leaking through.
(d) Silly superstitions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gave Calder the box he pulls out to look in?

2. How does the book suggest the reader view the artwork in "Chasing Vermeer"?

3. What do Petra and Calder learn in Chapter Eleven?

4. What artist does Ms Hussey quote?

5. What is Calder doing in his room?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Petra obtain the book called "Lo!"?

2. How do Petra and Calder's families differ?

3. What is given to three people on a warm, October night and what have the three chosen to do?

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

5. What do Petra and Calder do to try to make sense of everything that's been happening?

6. What interrupts Calder's writing about his assignment?

7. What do Petra and Calder do additional study on and what does Petra learn about the woman in her dream?

8. What is Petra's father upset about and what is Petra's response?

9. What about Petra's Halloween outfit is familiar to Calder and what shocks Petra about something she sees in a book about Vermeer?

10. What does Calder learn about his grandmother and what does he wish about Vermeer and Fort and why does he wish that?

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