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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What makes Petra nervous as they wander this other location?
(a) It is creaky.
(b) It smells like there is something dead inside.
(c) It resembles some of Vermeer's paintings.
(d) It is dark.

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

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

6. Why do Petra and Calder go to Fargo Hall?
(a) To apply for a grant to open the art gallery on campus.
(b) To get hot chocolate.
(c) To take the FCAT.
(d) To register for the standardized test for their age group.

7. What does the publication say in conclusion?
(a) The world should be able to enjoy Vermeer's painting.
(b) The thief is selfish.
(c) It is time to return the painting.
(d) Vermeer would not have condoned theft.

8. What do Calder and Petra discuss on their walk to school?
(a) If Ms. Hussey has been accused falsely.
(b) The goodness or lack thereof of the thief.
(c) If the Lady does not want to be found.
(d) If Mrs. Sharpe should still be considered a suspect.

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

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

11. Why does Ms. Hussey not come to school?
(a) Her mother has died.
(b) She has taken a leave of absence.
(c) She is ill.
(d) She has been arrested.

12. What does Petra find where he has been left behind?
(a) A body.
(b) A photography of the Lady painting.
(c) A painting.
(d) Another letter.

13. What does Petra wonder about Ms. Hussey and Mrs. Sharpe?
(a) If they are in cohorts.
(b) Their connections to the crime.
(c) If they know the thief.
(d) If they are in danger.

14. What does Petra feel about her thoughts the next morning?
(a) That her imagination is offering some truth(s).
(b) That her thoughts have been very similar to those of Calder.
(c) That her thoughts are befuddled from magic.
(d) That she thinks more clearly in the daytime than at night.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Petra see on the ground?

2. What do protests encourage the thief to do?

3. How do those caught in the thief's plan feel?

4. What does Calder find that would be a good place to hide a painting?

5. What do Petra and Calder wonder about Mrs. Sharpe?

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