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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How many dollars was the thief going to get for the Vermeer painting?
(a) 60 million.
(b) 5 million.
(c) 2 million.
(d) 10 million.

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

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

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

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

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

9. What do protests encourage the thief to do?
(a) Steal more paintings.
(b) Return the lady and ignore the experts.
(c) Keep the lady.
(d) Put the lady somewhere that the common people can enjoy her.

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

11. What does Petra encounter when she walks into the kitchen the next morning?
(a) Her parents with horrified looks on their faces.
(b) No one is home.
(c) Her brother is on the floor barking.
(d) Her dog is whining.

12. From whom does Calder receive a phone call?
(a) Tommy.
(b) His mother.
(c) His boss at Powell's Books.
(d) His cousin.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why do Petra and Calder pretend this assignment?

3. Where is Old Fred found dead?

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

5. What sign does Calder carry to hide the painting?

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