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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is delivered to three different people?
(a) Three umbrellas.
(b) Three cell phones.
(c) Three letters.
(d) Three pizzas.
2. What excites Petra in school?
(a) Drawing.
(b) High-end mathematics.
(c) Sculpture.
(d) Research writing.
3. What do people supposedly do with the strange events in "Lo!"?
(a) Make meaning out of them.
(b) Pretend they are normal.
(c) Disregard them.
(d) Refuse to even consider that they have meaning.
4. What does Calder learn about his grandmother?
(a) She was quite a good artist herself.
(b) She painted the picture hanging in Calder's living room.
(c) Her favorite painter was Vermeer.
(d) Her best friend was a good friend of one of Vermeer's descendants.
5. What is are pentominoes?
(a) A circus.
(b) A place where bad children are kept.
(c) Geometric shapes.
(d) A place when dogs are trained.
6. What does Calder learn when he researches Vermeer?
(a) Vermeer started painting when he was three.
(b) Vermeer was scorned as an artist for many years.
(c) Vermeer uses the same objects in many of his paintings.
(d) Vermeer started painting when he was seventy-seven.
7. What helps Calder think?
(a) Working with the pentominoes.
(b) Listening to music.
(c) Meditation.
(d) Creating stories in his head.
8. About what are these three people warned?
(a) There are criminals looking for these people.
(b) Not to go to the authorities.
(c) That there are many who want to stop them.
(d) That the pursuit of justice is a lonely occupation.
9. 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.
10. What most interests Calder?
(a) Music.
(b) Sports.
(c) Biology.
(d) Math and pentominoes.
11. Why was University School started?
(a) To enable unique students to get a quality education.
(b) As an experiment.
(c) To see if a school could exist on private funding alone.
(d) To serve the families of the military.
12. What does Petra start looking for in the world around her?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Symmetry.
(c) Art.
(d) Meaning.
13. What is Calder doing in his room?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Playing with his pentominoes.
(c) Reading.
(d) Working on an art project.
14. What has happened to Frog?
(a) He has suddenly disappeared.
(b) He is hit by a car.
(c) He has received a scholarship to a magnet school.
(d) He has drowned.
15. Of what University is the University School where Ms. Hussey teaches associated?
(a) New York University.
(b) University of Chicago.
(c) Columbia University.
(d) It is not associated with a university.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why is Petra embarrassed?
2. What is significant about the number twelve in the story?
3. When does Vermeer paint "A Lady Writing"?
4. What does Calder think when he sees Petra in her Halloween costume?
5. Who have arrived outside where Calder is?
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