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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. How does Ms. Hussey seem to Calder and Petra?
2. According to the artist quoted, what also tells the truth?
3. What does Petra do when she sees Ms. Hussey dropping something off at Powell's?
4. Who is Charles Fort?
5. About what are these three people warned?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do Petra and Calder's families differ?
2. What is Ms. Hussey teaching her students, and where is she teaching?
3. What do Petra and Calder learn about the Lady and what do they decide to do?
4. What does Calder learn about his grandmother and what does he wish about Vermeer and Fort and why does he wish that?
5. What does Petra begin looking for, and does she find it at home?
6. What is Petra's father upset about and what is Petra's response?
7. What does Charles Fort believe people do?
8. How are clues related to the story?
9. What is given to three people on a warm, October night and what have the three chosen to do?
10. Why does Calder think he and Petra should call The National Gallery?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Chasing Vermeer belongs to the young teen novel genre. Discuss the following:
1. Define the literary term "genre" and give several examples of three other genres in addition to the young teen novel genre.
2. Discuss two reasons why it might be useful to label a text by genre and two reasons it might be disadvantageous to label a text by genre.
3. What do you think is the difference between a young teen novel and a historical novel?
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
Pentominoes are very important to the plot and the thought processes of the main characters in this book, so this description of Pentominoes is very important to the reader. The story takes place in Hyde Park near the University of Chicago, focusing around an educational model in which children are given school assignments that are relevant to real life.
1. Do you think school which teaches material relevant to real life are better than those that do not? Why or why not? Use examples from "Chasing Vermeer" and your own life to support your answer.
2. How do you think pentominoes can affect a person's thought process? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.
3. Do you think knowing how to find and answer is more important than memorizing data? Why or why not? Use examples from "Chasing Vermeer" and your own life to support your answer.
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