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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who is "Old Fred"?
(a) Calder's cousin.
(b) Petra's new stepfather.
(c) Tommy's new stepfather.
(d) Calder's uncle.
2. What do Petra and Calder learn about Vermeer?
(a) That he was color blind.
(b) That he was deaf.
(c) That he was orphaned at a very young age.
(d) That much is unknown about his life.
3. Who is not feeling well?
(a) Mrs. Sharpe.
(b) Calder.
(c) Calder's grandmother.
(d) Petra's mother.
4. What connections do Petra and Calder try to make?
(a) Between Vermeer's time and now.
(b) Between Vermeer and Rembrandt.
(c) Between odd events and coincidences.
(d) Between their family's histories.
5. What do the majority of the events in "Lo!" include?
(a) A series of strange faces hidden in the art.
(b) A secret code.
(c) A distorted map.
(d) Animals falling out of the sky.
6. What is significant about the number twelve in the story?
(a) There are twelve major events.
(b) The book can be logically divided into twelve story lines.
(c) It takes twelve geometric shapes to create rectangles.
(d) There are twelve major characters.
7. Who is Louise Coffin Sharpe?
(a) The first owner of the book "Lo!".
(b) Petra's grandmother.
(c) Calder's great aunt.
(d) The author of Calder's book on art.
8. What painting does Calder find on Mrs. Sharpe's wall?
(a) One by a painter name Ilsatch.
(b) The same one that Calder's mother has hanging over the couch.
(c) One that Ms. Hussey showed in class.
(d) The same one that is on his box.
9. About what do Petra and Calder worry?
(a) If Ms. Hussey is badly injured.
(b) If Petra's father is leaving again on a business trip.
(c) All the problems that seem to be arising at the same time.
(d) If Calder's grandmother is too old to help them with their investigation.
10. In what month does the book open?
(a) April.
(b) February.
(c) August.
(d) October.
11. What does Calder say all the oddness probably is?
(a) Someone perpetuating a hoax.
(b) Silly superstitions.
(c) Another dimension leaking through.
(d) Petra's imagination running viral.
12. What is the purpose of the book "Chasing Vermeer"?
(a) To teach young people in a fun way.
(b) To test intelligence.
(c) Just to entertain.
(d) To persuade children to stay away from a life of crime.
13. What is Calder contemplating?
(a) Ms. Hussey's assignment.
(b) How to create a perfect sphere.
(c) A definition for structure.
(d) A way to use the pantominoes to demonstrate mathematical principles.
14. What is said about Ms. Hussey as a teacher?
(a) She has just started teaching.
(b) She is average.
(c) She is unique.
(d) She is about to retire.
15. 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) "Chasing Vermeer" has groups of twelve small puzzles that create a larger puzzle.
(d) The book is organized on the basis of the four sides of a rectangle.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do Petra and Calder learn in Chapter Eleven?
2. What does Ms. Hussey drop off in front of Powell's?
3. Of what University is the University School where Ms. Hussey teaches associated?
4. What is the purpose of pentominoes?
5. What do Petra and Calder study some more?
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