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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Two and Chapter Three.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What crime is mentioned in the letter?
(a) Perjury.
(b) It is not clear.
(c) Murder.
(d) Theft.

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

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

4. What is Ms. Hussey teaching?
(a) Algebra.
(b) Biology.
(c) How to write letters.
(d) Music.

5. Who are Calder and Petra?
(a) Two students in Ms. Hussey's class.
(b) Petra is in Ms. Hussey's class and Calder is in a rival classroom.
(c) Two cousins.
(d) Brother and sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is are pentominoes?

2. What most interests Calder?

3. Besides the writing itself, what gives clues to aid in solving the mystery?

4. What is the weather like at the opening of the novel?

5. What shocks each of the three people?

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