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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What connections do Petra and Calder try to make?
2. What do Petra and Calder learn about Vermeer?
3. What is significant about the Art Institute in Chicago for Petra and Calder?
4. What does Petra dress up as on Halloween?
5. Who gave Calder the box he pulls out to look in?
Short Essay Questions
1. What interrupts Calder's writing about his assignment?
2. What helps Calder think and what is he thinking about as he sits in his room?
3. What does Calder discover in Mrs. Sharpe's home?
4. Who did Calder used to spend his time with, and what does he do now?
5. What does the letter from Tommy say, and what is Calder's thoughts about the letter?
6. Why does Calder think he and Petra should call The National Gallery?
7. What does the author challenge the reader to do concerning the artwork and why?
8. What is significant about M & M's?
9. What does Petra begin looking for, and does she find it at home?
10. To what does the author compare pentominoes?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The art information given in Chapter 3 encourages young readers to be interested in art and its connection to literature. This chapter is an example of teaching across curriculum and how various school subjects are related. Ms. Hussey gives the students a quote by Picasso regarding how are tells a lie but also tells the truth.
1. Discuss the ways in which art and history are connected. Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.
2. Explain what is meant by teaching across curriculum. Use examples from "Chasing Vermeer" and your own life to support your answer.
3. Choose one of the following pairs of school subjects and explain, in detail, how they are connected in real life. Math/English; Science/History; Art/Social Studies or Math/Music.
Essay Topic 2
Titles often play a vital role in making a person decide to read a particular book. Discuss the following:
1. Fully explain why you think "Chasing Vermeer" is titled as such. Do you think it is the best title for the book? Why or why not? Can you think of a better title? Why would you choose it?
2. How important is a title in influencing you to consider reading a book? Explain your answer.
3. Do you think a title needs to have direct relevance to a book's content? Explain your answer.
4. Have you ever read a book that when you finished, you do not understand the relevance of the title? Does it discourage you from "trusting" that particular author again?
Essay Topic 3
Lo! is a book full of unexplained events. The clippings in this book come from newspapers from all over the world and include hundreds of stories of bizarre events. The majority of these events are of living animals falling out of the sky. Charles Fort, the author of the book, believes that people take what happens around them and then make these often odd and unlikely events fit into something they can understand, rather than taking what actually happens and trying to figure out why it has happened.
1. Do you think a bizarre event can always be explained by science, even if the knowledge is not available in the present time? Why or why not? Use examples from "Chasing Vermeer" and your own life to support your answer.
2. Making something you see into something your mind understands or expects is a common phenomenon. For example, we might see "waht" but read "what". Discuss an incident in "Chasing Vermeer" in which one of the characters saw an event and decided to interpret that event based on what the character wanted to find or know. Use examples from "Chasing Vermeer" and your own life to support your answer.
3. Explain, in depth, how reading Lo! changed Petra and Calder's perception of the world. Use examples from "Chasing Vermeer" and your own life to support your answer.
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