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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Sixteen and Seventeen.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do Calder and Petra pretend their assignment is?
(a) To interview art experts.
(b) To make a drawing of the train station.
(c) To learn about detective work.
(d) To make a map of the school.

3. What does Calder learn about his grandmother?
(a) Her favorite painter was Vermeer.
(b) She was quite a good artist herself.
(c) She painted the picture hanging in Calder's living room.
(d) Her best friend was a good friend of one of Vermeer's descendants.

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

5. What is significant about the Art Institute in Chicago for Petra and Calder?
(a) It is where "The Lady Writing" was kept until about two years earlier.
(b) It is scheduled to be closed for several months for remodeling.
(c) It is where "The Lady Writing" is due to arrive.
(d) It is close to their home and they can visit it easily.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ms. Hussey seem to Calder and Petra?

2. What does Petra notice about her father the next day?

3. What is does Petra and Calder think Petra has found?

4. What does Ms. Hussey drop off in front of Powell's?

5. What does Calder wish about Vermeer and Fort?

(see the answer key)

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