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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To whom are Calder and Petra supposed to give the object from Mrs. Sharpe?
(a) Ms. Hussey.
(b) They are to keep it themselves.
(c) Mr. King.
(d) The principal at their school.

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

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

5. Where are Petra and Calder in the opening of Chapter Seventeen?
(a) In Petra's family room.
(b) In the bushes outside Ms. Hussey's living room windows.q
(c) Near Mrs. Sharpe's home.
(d) In the school library.

6. What does Ms. Hussey's class soon resemble?
(a) A 17th century studio.
(b) A museum and laboratory.
(c) Organized chaos.
(d) A space shuttle.

7. 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.

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

9. What has Ms. Hussey received?
(a) One of the letters from the thief.
(b) A reprimand from the school board.
(c) A letter from her ex-husband.
(d) Bail from an anonymous well wisher.

10. Who does Petra see with a package in his arms?
(a) The principal.
(b) Mrs. Sharpe's son.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her brother.

11. How do those caught in the thief's plan feel?
(a) Awful for being duped.
(b) Angry.
(c) Indignant.
(d) Amused now that the scheme was thwarted.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are young people encourage to do in the "After" section?

2. Why does Ms. Hussey not come to school?

3. What is becoming a worldwide phenomenon?

4. Where do Petra and Calder see Mrs. Sharpe again?

5. What is does Petra and Calder think Petra has found?

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