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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what University is the University School where Ms. Hussey teaches associated?
(a) University of Chicago.
(b) It is not associated with a university.
(c) Columbia University.
(d) New York University.

2. What is Ms. Hussey's appearance when she comes to school one day?
(a) She has a black eye.
(b) She is walking with a cane.
(c) Her arm is in a sling.
(d) She has a bandage on her leg.

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

4. What excites Petra in school?
(a) Drawing.
(b) High-end mathematics.
(c) Sculpture.
(d) Research writing.

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

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

7. What is Ms. Hussey's class discussing at the opening of Chapter Four?
(a) How math is related to art.
(b) Whether to have a second trip to the zoo.
(c) About visiting the museum of natural history.
(d) The trip to the art museum.

8. What type of events is explained in the book Petra is reading?
(a) Normal events.
(b) Those based upon customs long past.
(c) Unexplained events.
(d) Impossible events.

9. What is art to Calder?
(a) Wonderful.
(b) Interesting in a casual way.
(c) Boring.
(d) Art is puzzling to Calder.

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

11. Of what is "Lo!" full?
(a) Adages.
(b) Quotes.
(c) Strange happenings.
(d) Poetry.

12. What does Calder say all the oddness probably is?
(a) Petra's imagination running viral.
(b) Someone perpetuating a hoax.
(c) Silly superstitions.
(d) Another dimension leaking through.

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

14. What does Petra decide she wants to do after reading "Lo!"?
(a) Give the book to her adventurous cousin.
(b) Draw some of her own odd happenings.
(c) Study odd happenings in the world.
(d) Refute his theories.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What most interests Calder?

2. What do Petra and Calder decide to list?

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

4. What have these people chosen to do?

5. Besides the writing itself, what gives clues to aid in solving the mystery?

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