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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 is are pentominoes?
(a) A place when dogs are trained.
(b) A place where bad children are kept.
(c) A circus.
(d) Geometric shapes.

2. What does Calder learn about his grandmother?
(a) Her favorite painter was Vermeer.
(b) She painted the picture hanging in Calder's living room.
(c) She was quite a good artist herself.
(d) Her best friend was a good friend of one of Vermeer's descendants.

3. What do Petra and Calder learn in Chapter Eleven?
(a) There are four of Vermeer's paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago.
(b) "The Lady Writing" was sent to the Guggenheim instead of Chicago.
(c) "The Lady Writing" was stolen.
(d) Vermeer was never revered as an artist when he was alive.

4. What painting does Calder find on Mrs. Sharpe's wall?
(a) The same one that is on his box.
(b) One by a painter name Ilsatch.
(c) The same one that Calder's mother has hanging over the couch.
(d) One that Ms. Hussey showed in class.

5. What do the majority of the events in "Lo!" include?
(a) A series of strange faces hidden in the art.
(b) A secret code.
(c) Animals falling out of the sky.
(d) A distorted map.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Petra decide she wants to do after reading "Lo!"?

2. What does the thief say he will do if the public does not respond to the thief's demands?

3. What does Calder's grandmother call a "rainbow bath"?

4. What does Calder feel he is trying to solve?

5. Why was University School started?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Petra begin looking for, and does she find it at home?

6. What is significant about M & M's?

7. What is the book "Lo!" about?

8. How are clues related to the story?

9. How do the students respond to the quote by Picasso, and who is especially intrigued by it?

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

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