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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Xavier Glitts?
(a) Petra's father's boss.
(b) The real name of Fred Steadman.
(c) A Vermeer expert who is called in to authenticate "The Lady Writing".
(d) The policeman who helped Petra.

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

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

5. What does a man with a foreign accent do?
(a) Picks up a letter Petra and Calder drop.
(b) Ask Petra and Calder a lot of questions.
(c) Hide in the bushes by Mrs. Sharpe's house.
(d) Accidentally bump into Calder.

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

7. What do Petra and Calder learn about Mrs. Sharpe's husband?
(a) He is in a nursing home near her home.
(b) He went missing many years ago while researching Vermeer.
(c) He had been a Vermeer scholar.
(d) He left her for a woman who resembled the lady in Vermeer's paintings.

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

9. What does Petra imagine in the bath?
(a) The lady hung in a dark dungeon.
(b) A jigsaw puzzle.
(c) The lady standing inside a bright light.
(d) A rectangle inside of a triangle.

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

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

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

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

14. How do Petra and Calder rethink their estimate of the thief?
(a) That he is bluffing.
(b) That he is insane.
(c) That he knows more about Vermeer than they realized.
(d) That he is more ruthless than they had thought.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Calder deliver to Mrs. Sharpe?

2. How many dollars was the thief going to get for the Vermeer painting?

3. Where do Petra and Calder wonder if the painting could be?

4. What happens after "The Lady Writing" is returned to the National Gallery?

5. Where are Petra and Calder sitting at the opening to Chapter Sixteen?

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