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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Twelve and Thirteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Calder write about as he sits in the sun?
(a) His mother's colorful dresses.
(b) How pentominoes are art to him.
(c) His box.
(d) His cat's eyes that seem to be many different colors.

2. What type of events is explained in the book Petra is reading?
(a) Impossible events.
(b) Those based upon customs long past.
(c) Normal events.
(d) Unexplained events.

3. What is Calder doing in his room?
(a) Playing with his pentominoes.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Working on an art project.
(d) Reading.

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

5. Where do Petra and Calder live?
(a) In the same house.
(b) In the same apartment complex.
(c) Near each other.
(d) Across the city from each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. What interrupts Calder in his writing?

2. Who is Louise Coffin Sharpe?

3. From where do the clippings in "Lo!" seem to come?

4. What appears in newspapers around the world?

5. How does Petra respond to what she notices about her father?

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