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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Where do Petra and the security guard go?
(a) To the police department.
(b) To find Calder.
(c) To the basement.
(d) To Ms. Hussey's classroom.

5. 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) Ms. Hussey sitting on a park bench crying.
(d) Mrs. Sharpe on a stretcher outside her home.

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

7. 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.

8. 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) The need to use the bathroom.
(d) Pretending he was chasing a mouse.

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

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

11. What is the Castiglione's treehouse?
(a) Where they find Calder.
(b) Where Petra and Calder always go to plan.
(c) A treehouse that is actually on the ground.
(d) A mythical meeting place.

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

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What other problem(s) is/are continuing for Petra and Calder?

2. What question is asked concerning both Ms. Hussey and Mrs. Sharpe?

3. What does a man with a foreign accent do?

4. What number is associated with odd coincidences?

5. What does Petra begin to question?

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