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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. How do the students respond to Ms. Hussey's quote?
(a) They disagree for the most part.
(b) They are intrigued.
(c) They are generally uninterested.
(d) They are puzzled.

2. What appears in newspapers around the world?
(a) A picture of Mrs. Sharpe stealing the painting.
(b) The thief's letter.
(c) A picture just recently found of Vermeer.
(d) A picture of Ms. Hussey handing the stolen painting to Mrs. Sharpe.

3. Who have arrived outside where Calder is?
(a) Ms. Hussey, Mrs. Sharpe and Mr. Watch.
(b) Calder's grandmother.
(c) Petra.
(d) Just Mr. Watch.

4. How much do the students have to know about art to have an opinion about art?
(a) They have to be experts.
(b) They have to have taken a semester of art appreciation.
(c) They have to at least studied the major artists of Vermeer's time.
(d) Not much.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About whom does Calder worry?

2. What does Calder learn about his grandmother?

3. Who is Charles Fort?

4. How is Calder's home described?

5. From whom does Calder receive a letter?

(see the answer key)

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