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

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

3. What is are pentominoes?
(a) A place where bad children are kept.
(b) Geometric shapes.
(c) A circus.
(d) A place when dogs are trained.

4. What is significant about the number twelve in the story?
(a) It takes twelve geometric shapes to create rectangles.
(b) There are twelve major characters.
(c) The book can be logically divided into twelve story lines.
(d) There are twelve major events.

5. What is said about Ms. Hussey as a teacher?
(a) She has just started teaching.
(b) She is about to retire.
(c) She is average.
(d) She is unique.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Petra's family described?

2. What crime is mentioned in the letter?

3. Of what University is the University School where Ms. Hussey teaches associated?

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

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

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