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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What had Petra and Calder seen coming?
(a) The theft of all four of Vermeer's paintings.
(b) The theft of "The Lady Writing".
(c) Calder's grandmother getting involved in the puzzle.
(d) A grade of incomplete from Ms. Hussey.

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

5. What does Petra start looking for in the world around her?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Art.
(c) Symmetry.
(d) Meaning.

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

7. How do Calder and Petra decide to help the Lady?
(a) By paying attention to everything around them.
(b) By hiring a private investigator.
(c) By talking to Ms. Hussey.
(d) By learning more about who the lady is.

8. Who gave Calder the box he pulls out to look in?
(a) His father.
(b) His grandfather.
(c) His brother.
(d) His grandmother.

9. From whom does Calder receive a letter?
(a) A company he wrote about pentominoes,
(b) His cousin.
(c) A company he wrote about a new game idea.
(d) Tommy.

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

11. What does Petra do when she sees Ms. Hussey dropping something off at Powell's?
(a) Follows Ms. Hussey.
(b) Looks at the map.
(c) Puts the cd in her player.
(d) Takes what Ms. Hussey drops off.

12. What is significant about the Art Institute in Chicago for Petra and Calder?
(a) It is scheduled to be closed for several months for remodeling.
(b) It is close to their home and they can visit it easily.
(c) It is where "The Lady Writing" was kept until about two years earlier.
(d) It is where "The Lady Writing" is due to arrive.

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

14. What does Ms. Hussey drop off in front of Powell's?
(a) A book.
(b) A picture.
(c) A map.
(d) A cd.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city is the novel set?

2. What is the weather like at the opening of the novel?

3. About whom does Calder worry?

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

5. What do people supposedly do with the strange events in "Lo!"?

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