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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What truth does the thief say the public needs to learn?
(a) About the bribes happening with the Art Institute of Chicago.
(b) About stolen art.
(c) About Vermeer.
(d) About Vermeer's real life.

3. What does Petra learn about the woman in her dream?
(a) She was murdered.
(b) She had modeled for many of Vermeer's paintings.
(c) She was a wealthy widow.
(d) She died very young in childbirth.

4. What does Calder say speaks to him and gives him answers?
(a) His dreams.
(b) Pictures.
(c) His pentominoes.
(d) An inner voice.

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

6. What does Calder learn about his grandmother?
(a) She was quite a good artist herself.
(b) Her best friend was a good friend of one of Vermeer's descendants.
(c) She painted the picture hanging in Calder's living room.
(d) Her favorite painter was Vermeer.

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

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

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

10. What is Calder contemplating?
(a) A way to use the pantominoes to demonstrate mathematical principles.
(b) A definition for structure.
(c) How to create a perfect sphere.
(d) Ms. Hussey's assignment.

11. What helps Calder think?
(a) Listening to music.
(b) Creating stories in his head.
(c) Working with the pentominoes.
(d) Meditation.

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

13. Where does Calder work?
(a) He has no job.
(b) In a law office.
(c) The farmer's market.
(d) A local bookstore.

14. About what do Petra and Calder worry?
(a) If Ms. Hussey is badly injured.
(b) If Calder's grandmother is too old to help them with their investigation.
(c) All the problems that seem to be arising at the same time.
(d) If Petra's father is leaving again on a business trip.

15. Who is "Old Fred"?
(a) Calder's uncle.
(b) Calder's cousin.
(c) Tommy's new stepfather.
(d) Petra's new stepfather.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Calder usually spend his free time until recently?

2. What is Ms. Hussey's class supposed to investigate for this assignment?

3. What does Petra decide she wants to do after reading "Lo!"?

4. In what month does the book open?

5. What is delivered to three different people?

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