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

2. What is in Petra's hair on the way to school the next morning?
(a) Glitter.
(b) Twigs.
(c) Bird seed.
(d) Cereal.

3. What type of projects and assignments are students working on in University School?
(a) Ones that try to merge past knowledge with next-century knowledge.
(b) Ones that look to the future.
(c) The typical school type assignments.
(d) Ones that are relevant to daily life.

4. What does the thief say he will do if the public does not respond to the thief's demands?
(a) He will auction the painting off to the highest bidder.
(b) He will destroy "The Lady Waiting".
(c) He will kill himself.
(d) He will drop "The Lady Waiting" into Lake Michigan in a waterproof container.

5. 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) One that Ms. Hussey showed in class.
(d) The same one that Calder's mother has hanging over the couch.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Calder's home described?

2. What does Calder seem unhappy about studying?

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

4. Where does Calder work?

5. What shocks Petra?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does the author challenge the reader to do concerning the artwork and why?

7. What is wrong with Ms. Hussey and what do Caler and Petra think about all the problems?

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

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

10. What is given to three people on a warm, October night and what have the three chosen to do?

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