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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Fourteen and Fifteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What do Petra and Calder decide to list?
(a) Ways dream images can be interpreted.
(b) Ms. Hussey's movements.
(c) All the strange happenings that have taken place recently.
(d) The names of the paintings in which the woman in Petra's dream appears.

4. How does author say "Chasing Vemeer" is related to pentominoes?
(a) Clues are building blocks to solve a puzzle just as pentominoes build rectangles.
(b) The book is not related to pentominoes; it's just a way to catch the reader's attention.
(c) The book is organized on the basis of the four sides of a rectangle.
(d) "Chasing Vermeer" has groups of twelve small puzzles that create a larger puzzle.

5. Besides the writing itself, what gives clues to aid in solving the mystery?
(a) The individual vocabulary words.
(b) The appendix.
(c) The artwork.
(d) The chapter titles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What excites Petra in school?

2. How has reading Fort helping Calder and Petra?

3. From where do the clippings in "Lo!" seem to come?

4. What does Calder use as an way to look for large storage spaces?

5. Who does Mrs. Sharpe know who was murdered?

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