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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 Two: June, what does Mr. Terupt tell Peter?

2. In Part Two: April, what does Jeffrey tell his mom and dad?

3. In Part Two: April, what is it announced Mr. Terupt will have?

4. In Part One: March, who do the girls see when they go see Mr. Terupt?

5. In Part One: February, what does Mr. Terupt tell the class?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part Two: April, what does Jessica say happens to break the silence? What does Mrs. Kelsey invite Mr. Terupt's classroom?

2. In Part One: February, what game does the class play at the beginning of the hour? What does Peter tease Luke about and what does Mr. Terupt say?

3. In Part Two: April, what does Jeffrey do with his family? How does his family respond?

4. In Part Two: May, whose fault does Jessica's mom think the accident was? Why does she think this?

5. In Part Two: March what does Luke find out when he goes to see Mr. Terupt for the second time? Why is this information important?

6. In Part Two: March, what does Anna admit to the other girls? What do they do together?

7. In Part Two: April, what is Anna's shocking news? What does Danielle say to this?

8. In Part Two: June, how does Jessica say she and the class feel on the last day of school? Why does she feel this way?

9. In Part Two: March, what does Mrs. Williams say about the snowball? What does Jessica think about this?

10. In Part One: February, there is a series of one to two sentence of the classroom students speaking. What is implied by these voices that happens and how is it implied?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jeffrey blames himself for his brother's death and parents sadness. Jessica blames herself for her parents divorce. All the kids blame themselves for Mr. Terupt's accident. Why do they blame themselves instead of seeing the true? How do these characters get past self-blame and what comes after? Choose at least two characters to analyze closely.

Essay Topic 2

Do you think that Mr. Terupt changes the students or they always find that they have the capacity to change from within? Write about how these two ideas cross with one another with several examples.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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