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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. In Part One: October, what does Jessica decide to do with Daniella?

2. In Part One: October, why does Anna say her mom was ostracized?

3. In Part One: January, what does Jessica tell Jeffrey that stays with him?

4. In Part One: October, what does Daniella's Grandmother tell her about Anna?

5. Why is Jessica nervous in Chapter One: September?

Short Essay Questions

1. What math activity does the class play in Part One: September? What dollar word does Luke come up with and why is this word a joke?

2. In Part One: December, what happens with Lexie, Danielle, Anna, Jeffrey, and Jessica's group? How does Mr. Terupt intervene and what does he say to the group members besides Lexie?

3. In Part One: October, what does Lexie think and do when she sees Jessica and Danielle together? What is the "girl war"?

4. In Part One: October, what does Jeffrey overhear when the class is forced to vacate because of the smoke? What does he think about what he overhears?

5. In Part One: October, what does Anna say happened to her mother when she was younger? How has this affected Anna and her mother?

6. In Part One: November, what does Jessica's Mother say about Anna's Mother to Jessica? How does Jessica relate this idea to her mom's relationship to her father?

7. In Part One: November, what does Peter do to Lexie in the soccer field? What does Luke say about this incident?

8. In Part One: January, what do the class members propose they do for their free day? How does Luke come to the rescue of this plan?

9. In Part One: November, what does Lexie say to Danielle about the other members of their Collaborative Classroom group? What does Danielle finally say, and realize, in response?

10. In Part One: November, where do the kids in the classroom visit and why? How does Jeffrey act differently in this visit?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Over the course of several chapters, we learn Jeffrey's story. In November, we learn he knows a lot about autistic students, in October that his brother died, and in November that he thinks it is his fault. In Part Two, Jeffrey reunites and starts healing his relationship with his parent. Choose one other character in the book, and write their journey from their initial problem to its resolution. Then answer the question: what is the novel showing with this structure about time, and how healing happens as a process?

Essay Topic 2

Think about how the students home life affects how they are in school. How do their parent's behavior towards the students affect them? How do the students learning new concepts or idea allow them to change their parents, or think differently? Choose three of the students, write their relationship with their parents, and then how this changes over the novel.

Essay Topic 3

After Mr. Terupt's accident, the students avoid one another at first and do not talk to one another. Later, they reunite and forgive one another. Think about how the novel is laid out with Mr. Terupt's injury, the separation, and then coming back together. When something disruptive happens in a community, what layers of reconciliation need to take place for the community to come back together?

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