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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who seems to speak to Petra with knowing eyes?
(a) A woman in a dream.
(b) Ms. Hussey.
(c) Petra's grandmother.
(d) Petra's father.

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

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

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

6. What shocks each of the three people?
(a) The danger involved.
(b) The time it will take to pursue their goals.
(c) The contents of the letter they receive.
(d) That they have been chosen for such an honor.

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

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

9. 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.

10. What does Calder write about as he sits in the sun?
(a) His box.
(b) How pentominoes are art to him.
(c) His cat's eyes that seem to be many different colors.
(d) His mother's colorful dresses.

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

12. What does Calder wish about Vermeer and Fort?
(a) That he could have met either of them.
(b) That he could be as talented as they are.
(c) That he had never heard of either of them.
(d) That they were still alive.

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

14. Who is Louise Coffin Sharpe?
(a) Petra's grandmother.
(b) Calder's great aunt.
(c) The author of Calder's book on art.
(d) The first owner of the book "Lo!".

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Vermeer paint "A Lady Writing"?

2. Who are Calder and Petra?

3. Who does Calder think he and Petra should call?

4. What does Calder feel he is trying to solve?

5. In what does Calder feel trapped?

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