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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What painting does Calder find on Mrs. Sharpe's wall?
(a) One that Ms. Hussey showed in class.
(b) One by a painter name Ilsatch.
(c) The same one that Calder's mother has hanging over the couch.
(d) The same one that is on his box.

3. 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.

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

5. What interrupts Calder in his writing?
(a) A yell.
(b) A loud bang.
(c) A howl from his dog.
(d) A commotion outside.

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

7. Why was University School started?
(a) As an experiment.
(b) To see if a school could exist on private funding alone.
(c) To enable unique students to get a quality education.
(d) To serve the families of the military.

8. What is Petra's father's response to what he brings up?
(a) He is irate.
(b) He is upset.
(c) He is nonchalant.
(d) He is amused.

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

10. Why is Petra embarrassed?
(a) That she dropped all the books in her arms.
(b) That Ms. Hussey sees her spying on the teacher.
(c) That her secret place at Powell's is discovered.
(d) That her purse falls and the contents scatter.

11. What has happened to Frog?
(a) He is hit by a car.
(b) He has received a scholarship to a magnet school.
(c) He has drowned.
(d) He has suddenly disappeared.

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

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

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

15. What does Petra notice about her father the next day?
(a) He is acting strangely.
(b) He is unusually happy.
(c) He seems ill.
(d) He is upset again.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gave Calder the box he pulls out to look in?

2. What have these people chosen to do?

3. What does Petra think it all means?

4. Of what are each of these three unsure?

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

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