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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sign does Calder carry to hide the painting?
(a) A sign from the last production in the theater.
(b) A "slippery when wet" sign.
(c) A tornado shelter sign.
(d) None.

2. Where do Petra and Calder see Mrs. Sharpe again?
(a) The room where the new art gallery is to go at the school.
(b) Museum.
(c) Hospital.
(d) Powell's Bookstore.

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

4. Where is Old Fred found dead?
(a) On Mrs. Sharpe's porch.
(b) In Petra's backyard.
(c) In Ms. Hussey's front yard.
(d) On the train.

5. Who do Calder and Petra encounter in Delia Dell Hall?
(a) Ms. Hussey.
(b) The principal.
(c) The man with the foreign accent.
(d) The janitor.

6. Where do the students find many objects that resemble objects in Vermeer paintings?
(a) No where.
(b) At Mrs. Sharpe's home.
(c) In other painters' pictures.
(d) At the museum.

7. Where do Petra and Calder wonder if the painting could be?
(a) At Mrs. Sharpe's.
(b) Lower School.
(c) At Powell's Books.
(d) In the train station.

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

9. What location at the school do Calder and Petra think is more interesting than King Hall?
(a) Delia Dell Hall.
(b) Brewster auditorium.
(c) Kingdom Hall.
(d) The old school gym.

10. What are Petra and Calder shocked to see on their way to school?
(a) Another broken pencil with blood on it.
(b) A duplicate of the Lady painting being run over by the train.
(c) Mrs. Sharpe on a stretcher outside her home.
(d) Ms. Hussey sitting on a park bench crying.

11. What does Calder use as an way to look for large storage spaces?
(a) Wanting to see more of the items in her basement.
(b) Wanting to help Mrs. Sharpe with some cleaning.
(c) Pretending he was chasing a mouse.
(d) The need to use the bathroom.

12. How much do the students have to know about art to have an opinion about art?
(a) They have to at least studied the major artists of Vermeer's time.
(b) They have to be experts.
(c) They have to have taken a semester of art appreciation.
(d) Not much.

13. What does the thief say if his demand is not met by that deadline?
(a) Someone will die.
(b) He will blow up the Louvre.
(c) He will blow up the Art Institute of Chicago.
(d) He will destroy "The Lady Writing".

14. What is does Petra and Calder think Petra has found?
(a) A portion of the letter by the thief.
(b) Evidence that someone is committing forgery of a painting.
(c) It is a piece of the pencil the thief used to write the letter.
(d) There does not seem to be any sense to what they have found.

15. What deadline does the thief give for his demands to be met?
(a) January 21.
(b) February 14.
(c) January 11.
(d) February 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Petra and the security guard get out of the squad car?

2. What is said in the publication?

3. What does Petra encounter when she walks into the kitchen the next morning?

4. About what does Mrs. Sharpe seem pleased?

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

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