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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 learn when he researches Vermeer?
(a) Vermeer started painting when he was three.
(b) Vermeer started painting when he was seventy-seven.
(c) Vermeer was scorned as an artist for many years.
(d) Vermeer uses the same objects in many of his paintings.

2. Of what is "Lo!" full?
(a) Quotes.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Strange happenings.
(d) Adages.

3. What is Ms. Hussey's class discussing at the opening of Chapter Four?
(a) How math is related to art.
(b) Whether to have a second trip to the zoo.
(c) About visiting the museum of natural history.
(d) The trip to the art museum.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Petra and Calder wonder about Mrs. Sharpe?

2. What does Calder's grandmother call a "rainbow bath"?

3. What is Petra doing in Powell's one day when she encounters Calder?

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

5. What other problem(s) is/are continuing for Petra and Calder?

(see the answer key)

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