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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Ten and Eleven.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the students respond to Ms. Hussey's quote?
(a) They disagree for the most part.
(b) They are intrigued.
(c) They are generally uninterested.
(d) They are puzzled.

2. What does Petra notice about her father the next day?
(a) He is upset again.
(b) He seems ill.
(c) He is unusually happy.
(d) He is acting strangely.

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

4. What truth does the thief say the public needs to learn?
(a) About Vermeer.
(b) About stolen art.
(c) About the bribes happening with the Art Institute of Chicago.
(d) About Vermeer's real life.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are Calder and Petra?

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

3. What has happened to Frog?

4. What does the artist she quotes say tell(s) a lie?

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

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