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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are they calling the place?
(a) To see if there are any paintings of Vermeer's contemporaries there.
(b) To report the dream Petra keeps having.
(c) To see if "The Lady Writing" is there.
(d) To ask about Vermeer's later life.

2. How do the students respond to Ms. Hussey's quote?
(a) They are intrigued.
(b) They are generally uninterested.
(c) They disagree for the most part.
(d) They are puzzled.

3. How does Petra respond to what she notices about her father?
(a) She wants to call a doctor.
(b) She is worried.
(c) She gets defensive.
(d) She laughs.

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

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

6. How has reading Fort helping Calder and Petra?
(a) To become friends.
(b) To understand that all is not as it ever appears.
(c) To be less shy about asking questions.
(d) To look more closely at the world around them.

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

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

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

10. What is the weather like at the opening of the novel?
(a) Very hot.
(b) Blizzard conditions.
(c) Warm
(d) Unusually cold.

11. What do Petra and Calder decide to list?
(a) All the strange happenings that have taken place recently.
(b) Ms. Hussey's movements.
(c) The names of the paintings in which the woman in Petra's dream appears.
(d) Ways dream images can be interpreted.

12. Besides the writing itself, what gives clues to aid in solving the mystery?
(a) The appendix.
(b) The artwork.
(c) The chapter titles.
(d) The individual vocabulary words.

13. What is significant about the number twelve in the story?
(a) The book can be logically divided into twelve story lines.
(b) It takes twelve geometric shapes to create rectangles.
(c) There are twelve major characters.
(d) There are twelve major events.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ms. Hussey's appearance when she comes to school one day?

2. Who seems to speak to Petra with knowing eyes?

3. What shocks Petra?

4. What does Petra find at her home?

5. In what does Calder feel trapped?

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