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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Eighteen and Nineteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do people supposedly do with the strange events in "Lo!"?
(a) Make meaning out of them.
(b) Disregard them.
(c) Pretend they are normal.
(d) Refuse to even consider that they have meaning.

2. 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.

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

4. What is the purpose of pentominoes?
(a) To teach by the use of mime.
(b) To make something that is simple become very complex.
(c) To enable the study of the world in a geometric way.
(d) To imitate something else.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Petra and Calder learn in Chapter Eleven?

2. What is published the next day?

3. Which color of M & M's do Petra and Calder decide to eat?

4. What does Mrs. Sharpe believe about the woman in Petra's dreams?

5. How does the book suggest the reader view the artwork in "Chasing Vermeer"?

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