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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tommy's latest letter to Calder say?
(a) Tommy is moving again.
(b) Tommy's stepfather is working for the mob.
(c) Tommy is ill.
(d) Tommy's stepfather has deserted them.

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

3. About what does Mrs. Sharpe seem pleased?
(a) The way the lady haunts Petra's dreams.
(b) The way the children have become so obsessed with Vermeer.
(c) The theft of the Vermeer painting.
(d) That Ms. Hussey is teaching Vermeer.

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

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

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

7. What do Petra and Calder wonder about Mrs. Sharpe?
(a) If she is the lady in the painting reincarnated.
(b) If she is a bit crazy.
(c) If Ms. Hussey knows who Mrs. Sharpe really is.
(d) If she stole the painting.

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

9. Where is Calder caught?
(a) In a hallway.
(b) On the playground.
(c) In the parking lot.
(d) On the basement steps.

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

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

12. What does Calder deliver to Mrs. Sharpe?
(a) A box of tea from Ms. Hussey.
(b) An invitation.
(c) A package of books.
(d) Another letter.

13. Where are Petra and Calder sitting at the opening to Chapter Sixteen?
(a) Petra's front porch.
(b) Outside Powell's Books.
(c) Mrs. Sharpe's front porch.
(d) Gracie Hall.

14. Who does Mrs. Sharpe know who was murdered?
(a) No one.
(b) Her husband.
(c) A renowned French artist who was her second cousin.
(d) A friend of hers from college who was a Vermeer scholar.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are Petra and Calder in the opening of Chapter Seventeen?

2. How do Petra and Calder rethink their estimate of the thief?

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

4. How much do the students have to know about art to have an opinion about art?

5. What do protests encourage the thief to do?

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