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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 Petra find at her home?
(a) A great deal of art.
(b) Meaning in the everyday things she uses.
(c) A correlation between truth and beauty.
(d) Very little art.

2. Who is not feeling well?
(a) Calder.
(b) Calder's grandmother.
(c) Petra's mother.
(d) Mrs. Sharpe.

3. What do Petra and Calder study some more?
(a) The interpretation of dreams.
(b) The history of the 17th century.
(c) Vermeer's life and work.
(d) The history of the supernatural.

4. In what does Calder feel trapped?
(a) A no-win situation.
(b) Having to spend time with Petra.
(c) A puzzle.
(d) A dangerous situation.

5. What is said about Ms. Hussey as a teacher?
(a) She is about to retire.
(b) She is unique.
(c) She is average.
(d) She has just started teaching.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Petra think it all means?

2. What is in Petra's hair on the way to school the next morning?

3. In what month does the book open?

4. What does Calder write about as he sits in the sun?

5. What does Calder wish about Vermeer and Fort?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Ms. Hussey and the students discuss in class and what does she quote from Picasso?

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

3. What does the letter published by the Chicago Tribune state?

4. What is Ms. Hussey teaching her students, and where is she teaching?

5. How does Petra obtain the book called "Lo!"?

6. What does Calder discover in Mrs. Sharpe's home?

7. What does the letter from Tommy say, and what is Calder's thoughts about the letter?

8. What is Ms. Hussey's assignment, and what is Calder's first response to the assignment?

9. What helps Calder think and what is he thinking about as he sits in his room?

10. Who did Calder used to spend his time with, and what does he do now?

(see the answer keys)

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