Chasing Vermeer Chapters 7-9

What shocks Petra?

• The Lady in her dreams is from a Vermeer painting

• Calder is wearing a costume she recognizes

• The woman in her dream is the same as is painted on Calder's box

• Two other girls from school are wearing the same dress

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What does Petra dress up as for Halloween?

• The lady from her dream

• One of the characters from a book she likes

• A rock star

• Emily Dickinson

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What does Petra's father bring up?

• a letter

• listening to music

• creating stories in his head

• meditation

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What has happened to Frog?

• He has drowned

• He has suddenly disappeared

• He has received a scholarship to a magnet school

• He is hit by a car

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What does Petra learn about the woman in her dreams.

• She was a wealthy widow

• She had modeled for many of Vermeer's paintings.

• She was murdered.

• She died very young in childbirth.

What is Petra curious about?

• Why Ms. Hussey seems to know about Petra's dream.

• How Petra and Calder both had the same dream.

• The woman's significance.

• Her mother's interpretation of the woman being in Petra's dream.

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What connections do Petra and Calder try to make?

• Between odd events and coincidences

• Between Vermeer and Rembrandt

• Between Vermeer's time and now

• Between their family's histories

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What does Calder say all the oddness probably is?

• silly superstitions

• someone perpetuating a hoax

• Petra's imagination running viral

• Another dimension leaking through

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How has reading Fort helping Calder and Petra?

• to be less shy about asking questions

• to understand that all is not as it ever appears

• to look more closely at the world around them

• to become friends

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What do Petra and Calder learn about Vermeer?

• that he was orphaned at a very young age

• that he was deaf

• that much is unknown about his life

• that he was color blind

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