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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Esme think about the physical appearance of her former students at the graduation ceremony?
(a) They seem huge, like little adults.
(b) They look just about the same.
(c) They are smaller than she remembers them.
(d) They look very different.

2. What conflict resolution does Kyle agree to with Zykrecia?
(a) Kyle agrees to never speak to Zykrecia again.
(b) Kyle will bring her lunch for a week.
(c) Kyle agrees to bake her a cupcake for her upcoming birthday.
(d) Kyle agrees to return the pencil he stole.

3. How successful is the film Codell shows for sexual education?
(a) It makes several students cry.
(b) It leads to more confusion than clarity.
(c) It successfully answers most of the students' questions.
(d) It sparks a valuable debate.

4. What activity did Codell have the class do to learn about light?
(a) Learn Morse Code by clicking flashlights on and off.
(b) Stage a shadow-puppet show.
(c) Paint rainbows, showing the accurate colors of a rainbow.
(d) Calculate the speed of light with a shoe box with a pinhole in it.

5. How does Codell teach Melanie to control her destructive urges?
(a) Codell refuses to let Melanie check out any books from the classroom library unless Melanie stops.
(b) Codell tells Melanie to think about sitting on the beach in Hawaii, rather than committing the crime.
(c) Codell tells her that when she has a "funny feeling" in her stomach telling her to commit a crime, she should find Codell instead.
(d) Codell calls a parent-teacher conference to explain the issue to Melanie's mother.

6. What does Codell allow Kyle to do in order to perform better at math?
(a) Go to the bathroom to splash water on his face.
(b) Stand on his head.
(c) Yell at the top of his lungs.
(d) Run two circles around the classroom.

7. What gift does Akila give to Codell?
(a) A woven basket.
(b) A sari.
(c) A gold necklace.
(d) Fake vomit, as a joke.

8. What activity did Codell have the class do to learn about Asia?
(a) Dress as samurai.
(b) Make a kimono.
(c) Make sushi.
(d) Stage a kabuki theater play.

9. Why is Codell's day spoiled on April 11th?
(a) Chicago experiences the worst rainstorm in fifty years.
(b) Mr. Turner reports her to the union for insubordination.
(c) Someone stole a pack of stickers.
(d) Random gunfire erupts in the street, and a classroom window is shot out.

10. What kind of film does Codell show for sexual education?
(a) Basketball star Magic Johnson talking about how he acquired HIV.
(b) A Discovery channel series about sexual reproduction in the animal kingdom.
(c) A film clip from the Michael Douglas film Basic Instinct.
(d) A cartoon of two goldfish mixing egg and sperm.

11. Who draws muscle men in his journal?
(a) Ozzie.
(b) Ruben.
(c) Ashworth.
(d) Billy Williams.

12. What activity did Codell have the class do to learn about medieval history.
(a) Make a castle out of marshmallows.
(b) Have a mock jousting tournament.
(c) Read Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and act out some of the stories.
(d) Make a diagram of all the parts of a knight's armor.

13. Who brings her two-year-old brother to school one day?
(a) Vanessa.
(b) Asha.
(c) Zykrecia.
(d) Maurissa.

14. What misbehavior does Melanie have a propensity to commit?
(a) Exposing herself to others.
(b) Arson.
(c) Stealing.
(d) Beating up kids.

15. How does the class do on the yearly standardized tests the district administers?
(a) The class performs poorly, and Codell is disappointed and disillusioned.
(b) The class scores third-best out of all the fifth-grade classes in the school.
(c) The class scores best out of all the fifth-grade classes in the school.
(d) The class scores the best in the state.

Short Answer Questions

1. What organization gives a teaching award to Codell, as described in the April 7 entry?

2. According to the end of Part II, what is Codell's ultimate career aspiration?

3. How many stages does Codell create as part of her Storyteller Festival?

4. What does Codell tell B. B., which she later apologizes for?

5. Why does B. B. sleep over at Codell's apartment one night?

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