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

2. What does Petra ask Calder to explain?
(a) About pentominoes.
(b) About his box.
(c) About his grandmother and her knowledge of the painting.
(d) About his mathematical genius.

3. What does Calder feel he is trying to solve?
(a) A puzzle.
(b) An intricate math problem using his pentominoes.
(c) Everyone's problems.
(d) His difficult problem about school.

4. What does Petra dress up as on Halloween?
(a) One of the characters is a book she likes.
(b) Emily Dickinson.
(c) The lady from her dream.
(d) A rock star.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Petra and Calder learn about Vermeer?

2. Of what is "Lo!" full?

3. What does Petra start looking for in the world around her?

4. How does author say "Chasing Vemeer" is related to pentominoes?

5. What is Calder doing in his room?

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