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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is becoming a worldwide phenomenon?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Bringing art to the people.
(c) The taking of paintings as hostage for learning.
(d) Reverence for Vermeer.

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

5. Where does Calder purposely get left behind?
(a) The school basement.
(b) The switchyard.
(c) The basement at Powell's.
(d) The museum.

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

7. What do Calder and Petra pretend their assignment is?
(a) To make a drawing of the train station.
(b) To make a map of the school.
(c) To interview art experts.
(d) To learn about detective work.

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

9. What other problem(s) is/are continuing for Petra and Calder?
(a) Just problems with Tommy's situation.
(b) Petra's father acting strangely and problems Tommy mentioned.
(c) None.
(d) Just problems with Petra's father.

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

11. What does Petra feel about her thoughts the next morning?
(a) That her imagination is offering some truth(s).
(b) That she thinks more clearly in the daytime than at night.
(c) That her thoughts are befuddled from magic.
(d) That her thoughts have been very similar to those of Calder.

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

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

14. What happens after "The Lady Writing" is returned to the National Gallery?
(a) Petra and Calder were invited to a special Vermeer showing at the gallery.
(b) Many of the tags on paintings were changed to be attributed to Vermeer.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Someone challenges if it is really the original.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mrs. Sharpe give Petra and Calder?

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

4. What appears in newspapers around the world?

5. What does the publication say in conclusion?

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