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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In what does Calder feel trapped?
(a) A dangerous situation.
(b) A puzzle.
(c) Having to spend time with Petra.
(d) A no-win situation.

4. What connections do Petra and Calder try to make?
(a) Between Vermeer's time and now.
(b) Between odd events and coincidences.
(c) Between Vermeer and Rembrandt.
(d) Between their family's histories.

5. What do Petra and Calder learn about Vermeer?
(a) That he was orphaned at a very young age.
(b) That he was color blind.
(c) That he was deaf.
(d) That much is unknown about his life.

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

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

8. About what is Petra curious?
(a) How Petra and Calder both had the same dream.
(b) The woman's significance.
(c) Her mother's interpretation of the woman being in Petra's dream.
(d) Why Ms. Hussey seems to know about Petra's dream.

9. When does Vermeer paint "A Lady Writing"?
(a) 1703.
(b) 1679.
(c) 1665.
(d) 1638.

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

11. What do Petra and Calder study some more?
(a) The history of the 17th century.
(b) The history of the supernatural.
(c) The interpretation of dreams.
(d) Vermeer's life and work.

12. What artist does Ms Hussey quote?
(a) Michelangelo.
(b) Vermeer.
(c) Picasso.
(d) Gauguin.

13. What does the thief say he will do if the public does not respond to the thief's demands?
(a) He will kill himself.
(b) He will destroy "The Lady Waiting".
(c) He will drop "The Lady Waiting" into Lake Michigan in a waterproof container.
(d) He will auction the painting off to the highest bidder.

14. What type of projects and assignments are students working on in University School?
(a) Ones that look to the future.
(b) Ones that are relevant to daily life.
(c) Ones that try to merge past knowledge with next-century knowledge.
(d) The typical school type assignments.

15. About what are these three people warned?
(a) There are criminals looking for these people.
(b) That there are many who want to stop them.
(c) Not to go to the authorities.
(d) That the pursuit of justice is a lonely occupation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Petra and Calder live?

2. Where does Calder work?

3. How is Petra's family described?

4. From where do the clippings in "Lo!" seem to come?

5. Of what are each of these three unsure?

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