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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Calder feel he is trying to solve?
(a) An intricate math problem using his pentominoes.
(b) Everyone's problems.
(c) A puzzle.
(d) His difficult problem about school.

2. What crime is mentioned in the letter?
(a) Theft.
(b) Murder.
(c) Perjury.
(d) It is not clear.

3. About whom does Calder worry?
(a) Tommy.
(b) His mother.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) Petra.

4. Who does Calder think he and Petra should call?
(a) The National Gallery.
(b) The Louvre.
(c) The Smithsonian.
(d) The Guggenheim.

5. What excites Petra in school?
(a) Research writing.
(b) Sculpture.
(c) Drawing.
(d) High-end mathematics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is significant about the Art Institute in Chicago for Petra and Calder?

2. Who are Calder and Petra?

3. What is are pentominoes?

4. What truth does the thief say the public needs to learn?

5. What does Calder think when he sees Petra in her Halloween costume?

Short Essay Questions

1. To what does the author compare pentominoes?

2. How does a set of pentominoes work?

3. What book do Calder and Petra study after school, and what do they wonder about the first owner of the book?

4. What do Petra and Calder do to try to make sense of everything that's been happening?

5. How are clues related to the story?

6. Why does Calder think he and Petra should call The National Gallery?

7. How do Petra and Calder's families differ?

8. What sort of books has Ms. Hussey chosen in Powell's Bookstore?

9. What does Calder learn about his grandmother and what does he wish about Vermeer and Fort and why does he wish that?

10. What do Petra and Calder dress as for Halloween?

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