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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is published the next day?
(a) A book.
(b) A warning from the police.
(c) Another letter.
(d) A plea from the Art Gallery.

2. Where is Frog?
(a) He is dead.
(b) He is in the hospital.
(c) He is in Australia with his father.
(d) He has returned from a vacation.

3. What happens when Petra and the security guard get out of the squad car?
(a) Someone fires a gun and hits the car.
(b) The car blows up.
(c) Calder comes running towards them screaming.
(d) A man jumps in the car and leaves.

4. Where does Calder purposely get left behind?
(a) The basement at Powell's.
(b) The switchyard.
(c) The museum.
(d) The school basement.

5. Where does Calder find "The Lady Waiting"?
(a) In the squad car in his front driveway.
(b) In Mrs. Sharpe's back yard.
(c) On the merry go round in the play yard at the school.
(d) In the Castiglione's treehouse.

6. What are young people encourage to do in the "After" section?
(a) Study some of the less well known painters.
(b) Create their on adventures.
(c) Take up painting.
(d) Pay attention to strange coincidences.

7. Where are Petra and Calder in the opening of Chapter Seventeen?
(a) In the bushes outside Ms. Hussey's living room windows.q
(b) Near Mrs. Sharpe's home.
(c) In the school library.
(d) In Petra's family room.

8. Why is Mrs. Sharpe asking for police protection?
(a) Her son-in-law has gone berserk.
(b) A vagrant has been bothering her.
(c) She receives a letter from the thief.
(d) Someone broke in to her home.

9. What do the students try to distinguish between various Vermeer paintings?
(a) Which are real and which are fake.
(b) Which are painted when Vermeer's mother was influential on his choices.
(c) Which are painted before Vermeer becomes famous.
(d) Which are painted when Vermeer is suffering from a broken hand.

10. Who broke her leg?
(a) Petra's mother.
(b) Ms. Hussey.
(c) Mrs. Sharpe.
(d) Tommy's mother.

11. What happens after "The Lady Writing" is returned to the National Gallery?
(a) Someone challenges if it is really the original.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Petra and Calder were invited to a special Vermeer showing at the gallery.
(d) Many of the tags on paintings were changed to be attributed to Vermeer.

12. How many dollars was the thief going to get for the Vermeer painting?
(a) 5 million.
(b) 60 million.
(c) 2 million.
(d) 10 million.

13. Why do Petra and Calder pretend this assignment?
(a) So they can have access to hidden areas around the school.
(b) So they can help Ms. Hussey.
(c) So they can learn more from art experts.
(d) So no one will question why they are not in class.

14. What is Xavier's nickname?
(a) The Glitter Man.
(b) The Spook.
(c) The Artist's Gumshoe.
(d) The X.

15. What appears in newspapers around the world?
(a) A picture of Mrs. Sharpe stealing the painting.
(b) The thief's letter.
(c) A picture of Ms. Hussey handing the stolen painting to Mrs. Sharpe.
(d) A picture just recently found of Vermeer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What number is associated with odd coincidences?

2. What does Petra begin to question?

3. Why hypothetical situation does Ms. Hussey put to Calder and Petra?

4. Who do Calder and Petra encounter in Delia Dell Hall?

5. What are Petra and Calder shocked to see on their way to school?

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