Chasing Vermeer Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Chasing Vermeer Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is are pentominoes?
(a) Geometric shapes.
(b) A circus.
(c) A place where bad children are kept.
(d) A place when dogs are trained.

3. With whom did Calder usually spend his free time until recently?
(a) Tommy.
(b) Robert.
(c) No one.
(d) Petra.

4. In what month does the book open?
(a) August.
(b) April.
(c) February.
(d) October.

5. Who is Louise Coffin Sharpe?
(a) Calder's great aunt.
(b) The first owner of the book "Lo!".
(c) Petra's grandmother.
(d) The author of Calder's book on art.

6. About whom does Calder worry?
(a) Tommy.
(b) Petra.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) His mother.

7. Where do Petra and Calder live?
(a) Near each other.
(b) In the same apartment complex.
(c) Across the city from each other.
(d) In the same house.

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

9. What are two topics that the reader learns about in "Chasing Vermeer"?
(a) Music and biology.
(b) History and medicine.
(c) Science and Music.
(d) Art and computers.

10. What do Petra and Calder learn in Chapter Eleven?
(a) "The Lady Writing" was sent to the Guggenheim instead of Chicago.
(b) Vermeer was never revered as an artist when he was alive.
(c) "The Lady Writing" was stolen.
(d) There are four of Vermeer's paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago.

11. 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.

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

13. Who have arrived outside where Calder is?
(a) Just Mr. Watch.
(b) Ms. Hussey, Mrs. Sharpe and Mr. Watch.
(c) Petra.
(d) Calder's grandmother.

14. 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 organized on the basis of the four sides of a rectangle.
(c) "Chasing Vermeer" has groups of twelve small puzzles that create a larger puzzle.
(d) The book is not related to pentominoes; it's just a way to catch the reader's attention.

15. What does Calder love about the box?
(a) The smoothness of the wood.
(b) The way the grains of wood create a pattern.
(c) The way the lid is hinged.
(d) The painting on the cover.

Short Answer Questions

1. How has reading Fort helping Calder and Petra?

2. What does Calder write about as he sits in the sun?

3. What interrupts Calder in his writing?

4. Which color of M & M's do Petra and Calder decide to eat?

5. What is Ms. Hussey's class discussing at the opening of Chapter Four?

(see the answer keys)

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