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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Eight and Nine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Petra and Calder study some more?
(a) The history of the 17th century.
(b) Vermeer's life and work.
(c) The history of the supernatural.
(d) The interpretation of dreams.

2. What are two topics that the reader learns about in "Chasing Vermeer"?
(a) History and medicine.
(b) Music and biology.
(c) Art and computers.
(d) Science and Music.

3. What shocks Petra?
(a) The woman in her dream is the same as is painted on Calder's box.
(b) Calder is wearing a costume she recognizes.
(c) Two other girls from school are wearing the same dress.
(d) The lady in her dreams is from a Vermeer painting.

4. Who is especially interested in the quote Ms. Hussey tells the students?
(a) Petra.
(b) Arthur.
(c) Calder.
(d) The genius of the class, Henrique.

5. What type of projects and assignments are students working on in University School?
(a) The typical school type assignments.
(b) Ones that try to merge past knowledge with next-century knowledge.
(c) Ones that look to the future.
(d) Ones that are relevant to daily life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Petra find at her home?

2. What do people supposedly do with the strange events in "Lo!"?

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

4. About whom does Calder worry?

5. What helps Calder think?

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