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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 does Tommy's latest letter to Calder say?
(a) Tommy is moving again.
(b) Tommy's stepfather is working for the mob.
(c) Tommy is ill.
(d) Tommy's stepfather has deserted them.

2. What do protests encourage the thief to do?
(a) Return the lady and ignore the experts.
(b) Put the lady somewhere that the common people can enjoy her.
(c) Keep the lady.
(d) Steal more paintings.

3. How much do the students have to know about art to have an opinion about art?
(a) They have to have taken a semester of art appreciation.
(b) They have to at least studied the major artists of Vermeer's time.
(c) Not much.
(d) They have to be experts.

4. What does Petra see on the ground?
(a) A broken art pencil.
(b) A torn piece of canvas.
(c) Some dribbles of color.
(d) A torn piece of paper.

5. Where do Petra and Calder wonder if the painting could be?
(a) In the train station.
(b) At Powell's Books.
(c) Lower School.
(d) At Mrs. Sharpe's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Calder purposely get left behind?

2. What is said in the publication?

3. What does Mrs. Sharpe believe about the woman in Petra's dreams?

4. What are Petra and Calder shocked to see on their way to school?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Calder manage to be left behind and what does he find?

2. What is significant about the number twelve?

3. What do Calder and Petra wonder as they sit in Gracie Hall?

4. What do Petra and Calder learn on the evening news?

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

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

7. Who do Petra and Calder see on their way to school and what does she give them?

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

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

10. Where does Petra find Calder and the painting?

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