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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 are young people encourage to do in the "After" section?
(a) Study some of the less well known painters.
(b) Pay attention to strange coincidences.
(c) Create their on adventures.
(d) Take up painting.

2. Where are Petra and Calder in the opening of Chapter Seventeen?
(a) In the school library.
(b) In the bushes outside Ms. Hussey's living room windows.q
(c) Near Mrs. Sharpe's home.
(d) In Petra's family room.

3. What are Petra and Calder shocked to see on their way to school?
(a) Ms. Hussey sitting on a park bench crying.
(b) Another broken pencil with blood on it.
(c) Mrs. Sharpe on a stretcher outside her home.
(d) A duplicate of the Lady painting being run over by the train.

4. Where is Old Fred found dead?
(a) In Ms. Hussey's front yard.
(b) In Petra's backyard.
(c) On Mrs. Sharpe's porch.
(d) On the train.

5. What is the Castiglione's treehouse?
(a) A treehouse that is actually on the ground.
(b) A mythical meeting place.
(c) Where Petra and Calder always go to plan.
(d) Where they find Calder.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why hypothetical situation does Ms. Hussey put to Calder and Petra?

2. What is becoming a worldwide phenomenon?

3. From whom does Calder receive a phone call?

4. Where is Frog?

5. Where does Calder find "The Lady Waiting"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Petra and Calder not read the letter from Mrs. Sharpe to Ms. Hussey?

2. What does Petra think about as she is reviewing what happened at Delia Dell?

3. What occurs on the visit Petra and Calder make to the hospital to visit Mrs. Sharpe?

4. What does the letter from Tommy say and how do Petra and Calder help?

5. What is significant about the number twelve?

6. How does Calder find "The Lady Waiting"?

7. What happens to Ms. Hussey in Chapter Fifteen?

8. Where does Petra find Calder and the painting?

9. What happens when Petra enters her kitchen the next morning?

10. Why is Petra nervous in Delia Dell Hall?

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