Chasing a Comprehension Check (Vermeer chapters 1-9)
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- Q 1/20Score 0What is the name of the painting that gets stolen?29The Mona LisaThe Guitar PlayerA Lady WritingThe Geographer
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- Q1What is the name of the painting that gets stolen?The Mona LisaThe Guitar PlayerA Lady WritingThe Geographer60s
- Q2What is figurative language?creating a new word by combining two other wordslanguage used in a non-literal waydialogue spoken by a charactera word or phrase used in everyday speech, but rarely in writing45s
- Q3What type of puzzles does Calder like to solve?Sodukopentominocrosswordjigsaw45s
- Q4What is a simile?a comparison between two thingsa word that describes another worda commonly used expression that cannot be taken literallya comparison between two unlike things using like or as45s
- Q5What is the name of the book Petra finds?Beware!Hark!Look Out!Lo!45s
- Q6What is a metaphor?a commonly used expression that cannot be taken literallya comparison between two unlike things that does NOT use like or asa word that describes another worda comparison between two things using like or as45s
- Q7What is Calder's last name?PillarPillayPortlandPilaf45s
- Q8Who moves out of Calder and Petra's neighborhood?TommyFrogMr. WatchDenise45s
- Q9What is personification?giving human characteristics to objects or animalsusing people to develop a storyindirect characterizationa comparison of two characters45s
- Q10What is imagery?illustrationsthe causal mention in literature to another literary workthe use of an object to represent an abstract idealanguage that appeals to the five senses45s
- Q11What do Calder and Petra eat every time they find a clue?Jolly RanchersM&MsTwizzlersStarbursts45s
- Q12What is an idiom?a precepta fortune cookie sayinga comparison between two unlike thingsa commonly used expression that cannot be taken literally45s
- Q13Which type of character faces conflict in a story and changes because of it?dynamicdirectstaticflat45s
- Q14What animal is hidden in every other illustration in Chasing Vermeer?a froga lizardan iguanaa toad45s
- Q15What is dramatic irony?when the reader knows more than the characterwhen the opposite of what is meant is saidwhen the story reaches its resolutionwhen the opposite of what is expected to occur happens45s
