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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Calder learn when he researches Vermeer?
(a) Vermeer uses the same objects in many of his paintings.
(b) Vermeer was scorned as an artist for many years.
(c) Vermeer started painting when he was seventy-seven.
(d) Vermeer started painting when he was three.

5. How is Calder's home described?
(a) Loud but quite orderly.
(b) Chaotic and loud.
(c) Orderly and quiet.
(d) Quiet and disorganized.

6. Of what are each of these three unsure?
(a) If they want to participate.
(b) How to respond.
(c) Why they were chosen.
(d) If the danger is worth the end result.

7. What is Ms. Hussey teaching?
(a) Music.
(b) Biology.
(c) Algebra.
(d) How to write letters.

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

9. Who are Calder and Petra?
(a) Two students in Ms. Hussey's class.
(b) Brother and sister.
(c) Two cousins.
(d) Petra is in Ms. Hussey's class and Calder is in a rival classroom.

10. What does Calder write about as he sits in the sun?
(a) How pentominoes are art to him.
(b) His mother's colorful dresses.
(c) His box.
(d) His cat's eyes that seem to be many different colors.

11. 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 "The Lady Writing" is there.
(d) To see if there are any paintings of Vermeer's contemporaries there.

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

13. What most interests Calder?
(a) Music.
(b) Math and pentominoes.
(c) Sports.
(d) Biology.

14. What is said about Ms. Hussey as a teacher?
(a) She has just started teaching.
(b) She is about to retire.
(c) She is unique.
(d) She is average.

15. What is delivered to three different people?
(a) Three cell phones.
(b) Three letters.
(c) Three umbrellas.
(d) Three pizzas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is significant about the number twelve in the story?

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

3. What do Petra and Calder decide to list?

4. What is the purpose of pentominoes?

5. What connections do Petra and Calder try to make?

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