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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which student becomes teacher for a day, swapping places with Codell?
(a) Serena.
(b) Billy Williams.
(c) Ruben.
(d) JoEllen.

2. What is stolen from Codell's classroom on October 5?
(a) A textbook on sexual reproduction.
(b) Several rulers, compasses, and protractors.
(c) A Columbus comic book.
(d) A globe.

3. On December 14th, older children steal which of Codell's classroom accessories?
(a) Her roller skates.
(b) The Thinking Cap.
(c) The Time Machine.
(d) The Happy Box.

4. Which is NOT one of the ways in which Codell's class learns about Native Americans?
(a) They dress up in authentically-researched Native American clothing.
(b) They perform a rain dance.
(c) They visit the zoo to see an American buffalo.
(d) They have a guest speaker come to share Native American artifacts.

5. Which of the following is NOT an activity Codell describes her class doing for Halloween?
(a) Dramatizing the book Old Devil Wind for a kindergarten class.
(b) Reading The Bat-Poet and studying bats.
(c) Dressing up as ghosts and playing a prank on a second-grade class.
(d) Holding a mummy-wrapping race.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose mother complains about Codell insisting on buying dictionaries for the children?

2. How does Ruben show his affectionate crush for Codell?

3. What is the name of the mentor who inspired Codell to do her best as a teacher?

4. How many new teachers are introduced prior to the school's opening in Part I?

5. In the first entry of the book, how does Codell respond when asked what she would do if a student uttered a curse word in her classroom?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Marky?

2. What is Codell's opinion of the teaching education she received?

3. What is Codell's rationale for insisting her students call her Madame Esme?

4. What is the nature of the fight between Shira and Twanette on September 30?

5. At the beginning of Part I, what does fifth-grader Melanie warn incoming students about the fifth grade?

6. How is the "time machine" built?

7. What is Codell's philosophy about bad behavior, in respect to an incident with B. B.?

8. Describe Miss Clark's attempt to teach Codell's kids on January 11.

9. Describe the story Codell tells about her landlord in a November 10 entry.

10. Why do the students stab the substitute teacher in the back with a pencil on February 1?

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