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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Ms. Hussey received?
(a) A letter from her ex-husband.
(b) One of the letters from the thief.
(c) A reprimand from the school board.
(d) Bail from an anonymous well wisher.

2. What does Mrs. Sharpe give Petra and Calder?
(a) An apple a piece.
(b) A bag of cookies.
(c) A letter to mail.
(d) A bag of odd objects.

3. What does Mrs. Sharpe believe about the woman in Petra's dreams?
(a) The woman is a friend of her deceased husband.
(b) The woman is a reincarnation of another woman.
(c) The woman is trying to speak to Petra.
(d) The woman is being held against her will somewhere.

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

5. What do Petra and Calder do on November 22?
(a) Try to contact Vermeer in a seance.
(b) Have tea with Mrs. Sharpe.
(c) Get out of school early.
(d) Have tea at the Art Institute of Chicago.

6. What does Petra see on the ground?
(a) A torn piece of canvas.
(b) A broken art pencil.
(c) Some dribbles of color.
(d) A torn piece of paper.

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

8. Why hypothetical situation does Ms. Hussey put to Calder and Petra?
(a) About being immortal.
(b) About having Mrs. Sharpe examined by a psychiatrist.
(c) About returning something that was stolen.
(d) About receiving a letter.

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

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

11. What number is associated with odd coincidences?
(a) 3.
(b) 9.
(c) 11.
(d) 12.

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

13. What does Petra begin to question?
(a) If she is overlooking a simple answer.
(b) If her imagination is working overtime.
(c) If she should go to the police.
(d) If she is missing a vital piece of the puzzle.

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

15. 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 have taken a semester of art appreciation.
(c) They have to be experts.
(d) Not much.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Petra nervous as they wander this other location?

2. What is said in the publication?

3. What is the Castiglione's treehouse?

4. Where is Frog?

5. What does Petra wonder about Ms. Hussey and Mrs. Sharpe?

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