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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. Where can one find answers about the clues in the book?
(a) In the teacher's guide.
(b) In the appendix in the back of the book.
(c) In footnotes.
(d) On a website.

2. Of what are each of these three unsure?
(a) If they want to participate.
(b) Why they were chosen.
(c) If the danger is worth the end result.
(d) How to respond.

3. What does Calder learn when he researches Vermeer?
(a) Vermeer started painting when he was seventy-seven.
(b) Vermeer uses the same objects in many of his paintings.
(c) Vermeer was scorned as an artist for many years.
(d) Vermeer started painting when he was three.

4. What does Petra start looking for in the world around her?
(a) Meaning.
(b) Art.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Symmetry.

5. How does Ms. Hussey seem to Calder and Petra?
(a) Unhappy.
(b) Nonplussed.
(c) Visibly upset.
(d) Excited.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what is "Lo!" full?

2. What painting does Calder find on Mrs. Sharpe's wall?

3. Who are Calder and Petra?

4. What does Calder say speaks to him and gives him answers?

5. What interrupts Calder in his writing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What about Petra's Halloween outfit is familiar to Calder and what shocks Petra about something she sees in a book about Vermeer?

2. What do Calder and Petra learn about the Lady?

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

4. What interrupts Calder's writing about his assignment?

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

6. Why is the University School founded, and how what Ms. Hussey think of this?

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

8. How does a set of pentominoes work?

9. What is Petra's father upset about and what is Petra's response?

10. Who are Calder and Petra, and how do they differ?

(see the answer keys)

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