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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 happens when Petra and the security guard get out of the squad car?
(a) Calder comes running towards them screaming.
(b) The car blows up.
(c) Someone fires a gun and hits the car.
(d) A man jumps in the car and leaves.

2. What does Petra wonder about Ms. Hussey and Mrs. Sharpe?
(a) If they are in cohorts.
(b) Their connections to the crime.
(c) If they know the thief.
(d) If they are in danger.

3. How do Petra and Calder rethink their estimate of the thief?
(a) That he is bluffing.
(b) That he is more ruthless than they had thought.
(c) That he is insane.
(d) That he knows more about Vermeer than they realized.

4. What does Mrs. Sharpe give Petra and Calder?
(a) An apple a piece.
(b) A bag of cookies.
(c) A bag of odd objects.
(d) A letter to mail.

5. Who is Xavier Glitts?
(a) A Vermeer expert who is called in to authenticate "The Lady Writing".
(b) The real name of Fred Steadman.
(c) Petra's father's boss.
(d) The policeman who helped Petra.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Petra begin to question?

2. Where do Petra and Calder see Mrs. Sharpe again?

3. Where is Frog?

4. Who does Mrs. Sharpe know who was murdered?

5. Why do Petra and Calder hold a bake sale?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where does Petra find Calder and the painting?

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

4. What is significant about the number twelve?

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

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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