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

2. What painting does Calder find on Mrs. Sharpe's wall?
(a) One that Ms. Hussey showed in class.
(b) The same one that is on his box.
(c) One by a painter name Ilsatch.
(d) The same one that Calder's mother has hanging over the couch.

3. What type of events is explained in the book Petra is reading?
(a) Impossible events.
(b) Normal events.
(c) Unexplained events.
(d) Those based upon customs long past.

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

5. Why was University School started?
(a) To see if a school could exist on private funding alone.
(b) As an experiment.
(c) To enable unique students to get a quality education.
(d) To serve the families of the military.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Petra learn about the woman in her dream?

3. What is are pentominoes?

4. What does Petra think it all means?

5. What does Calder learn when he researches Vermeer?

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