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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 do the students try to distinguish between various Vermeer paintings?
(a) Which are painted when Vermeer is suffering from a broken hand.
(b) Which are real and which are fake.
(c) Which are painted before Vermeer becomes famous.
(d) Which are painted when Vermeer's mother was influential on his choices.

2. What is Calder contemplating?
(a) A way to use the pantominoes to demonstrate mathematical principles.
(b) Ms. Hussey's assignment.
(c) A definition for structure.
(d) How to create a perfect sphere.

3. From where do the clippings in "Lo!" seem to come?
(a) From handwritten articles.
(b) From newspapers from all over the world.
(c) From the internet.
(d) From newspapers no longer extant.

4. What do Petra and Calder learn in Chapter Eleven?
(a) There are four of Vermeer's paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago.
(b) "The Lady Writing" was sent to the Guggenheim instead of Chicago.
(c) "The Lady Writing" was stolen.
(d) Vermeer was never revered as an artist when he was alive.

5. What does Calder seem unhappy about studying?
(a) Culture.
(b) History.
(c) Words.
(d) Biology.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Louise Coffin Sharpe?

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

3. What helps Calder think?

4. What appears in newspapers around the world?

5. What is in Petra's hair on the way to school the next morning?

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