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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Petra think it all means?
(a) She thinks her best friend knows the answer.
(b) She thinks it's a joke.
(c) She is not sure.
(d) She thinks it has something to do with Calder.

4. How does Ms. Hussey seem to Calder and Petra?
(a) Unhappy.
(b) Nonplussed.
(c) Visibly upset.
(d) Excited.

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

6. What does Petra find at her home?
(a) A correlation between truth and beauty.
(b) Meaning in the everyday things she uses.
(c) A great deal of art.
(d) Very little art.

7. How does the book suggest the reader view the artwork in "Chasing Vermeer"?
(a) The reader should look closely at the art work.
(b) The art work is merely for decorative purposes.
(c) The art work is not mentioned.
(d) The reader should view the artwork as if it were writing.

8. Who seems to speak to Petra with knowing eyes?
(a) Petra's grandmother.
(b) A woman in a dream.
(c) Ms. Hussey.
(d) Petra's father.

9. Who is especially interested in the quote Ms. Hussey tells the students?
(a) Calder.
(b) Arthur.
(c) Petra.
(d) The genius of the class, Henrique.

10. What is in Petra's hair on the way to school the next morning?
(a) Twigs.
(b) Bird seed.
(c) Cereal.
(d) Glitter.

11. Which color of M & M's do Petra and Calder decide to eat?
(a) Green.
(b) Blue.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Red.

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

13. Why are they calling the place?
(a) To ask about Vermeer's later life.
(b) To report the dream Petra keeps having.
(c) To see if there are any paintings of Vermeer's contemporaries there.
(d) To see if "The Lady Writing" is there.

14. 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.

15. Who does Calder think he and Petra should call?
(a) The National Gallery.
(b) The Louvre.
(c) The Smithsonian.
(d) The Guggenheim.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the artist quoted, what also tells the truth?

2. What do Petra and Calder learn in Chapter Eleven?

3. What is Petra's father's response to what he brings up?

4. What does Calder think when he sees Petra in her Halloween costume?

5. What is Calder contemplating?

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