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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 does Petra and Calder think Petra has found?
(a) Evidence that someone is committing forgery of a painting.
(b) A portion of the letter by the thief.
(c) There does not seem to be any sense to what they have found.
(d) It is a piece of the pencil the thief used to write the letter.

2. What does a man with a foreign accent do?
(a) Accidentally bump into Calder.
(b) Hide in the bushes by Mrs. Sharpe's house.
(c) Ask Petra and Calder a lot of questions.
(d) Picks up a letter Petra and Calder drop.

3. What is Xavier's nickname?
(a) The Glitter Man.
(b) The Spook.
(c) The X.
(d) The Artist's Gumshoe.

4. What is said in the publication?
(a) It is an appeal to the artistic taste of the thief.
(b) It says that they are very close to catching the thief.
(c) It says if the painting is returned, no charges will be filed.
(d) It praises the thief for the good that has come from the theft.

5. What does Calder find that would be a good place to hide a painting?
(a) A false wall.
(b) A large wardrobe.
(c) Steps to the attic.
(d) A false floor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens after "The Lady Writing" is returned to the National Gallery?

2. Why do Petra and Calder go to Fargo Hall?

3. What is becoming a worldwide phenomenon?

4. How many dollars was the thief going to get for the Vermeer painting?

5. What does Ms. Hussey's class soon resemble?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the thief's letter appears in newspapers around the world?

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

3. Why do Petra and Calder run out of Delia Dell Hall and what do they decide to do?

4. What happens to "The Lady Waiting" and how does the National Gallery respond to part of the thief's demands?

5. How is Ms. Hussey's class metamorphosing?

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

7. Who is chasing Petra and Calder and what happens?

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

9. How does Calder manage to search Mrs. Sharpe's house, and what does he find?

10. What does Petra find near Mrs. Sharpe's home?

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