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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the chief disciplinarian and organizer in Mrs. Zajac's family?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her nanny.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her grandmother.

2. What did Mrs. Zajac admit she saw more clearly now that Clarence was gone?
(a) She was certain to lose her job.
(b) She was a very good teacher.
(c) She was wrong about Clarence.
(d) She was able to see the other children's needs more clearly.

3. Where did Mrs. Zajac meet her husband Billy?
(a) Waitressing.
(b) College.
(c) High school.
(d) Grammar school.

4. Whom did Mrs. Zajac ask to clean out Clarence's desk?
(a) Mariposa.
(b) Arabella.
(c) Claude.
(d) Robert.

5. When she returned from February vacation, what does Mrs. Zajac think about Clarence?
(a) "There is no end to his arrogance."
(b) "I do not think I can pass him into sixth grade."
(c) "I am controlling him a lot and teaching him little."
(d) "That child needs more attention."

6. What statistic applied to Holyoke School about their standardized test scores?
(a) Almost all students who failed came from impoverished families.
(b) Almost all students who failed were African American.
(c) Almost all students who failed were Mexican American.
(d) Almost all students who failed were sixth graders.

7. What did Arnie say to Mrs. Zajac when she had returned form Puerto Rico?
(a) "How was your vacation?"
(b) "You look like an old lady."
(c) "You look about twenty."
(d) "Do we have to work?"

8. What response did one of Al's critics give after he made a suggestion to the teachers at a meeting?
(a) "What makes you think I can do more than I am?"
(b) "The Lord blesses you, Al."
(c) "You can't make me quit, Al."
(d) "Amen."

9. What does Robert say to Mrs. Zajac one day to show her he had not done his homework?
(a) "Do you want me to go to the principal's office now?"
(b) "Do you want me to sit quietly at my desk and read?"
(c) "Do you want me to go out into the hall while you read the answers?"
(d) "Do you want me to sit next to Jennifer while you go over the homework?"

10. When did Mrs. Zajac take the same field trip her students were taking with her now?
(a) When she was in high school.
(b) When she was on vacation with her family.
(c) When she was in summer camp.
(d) When she was in fifth grade.

11. How did Father Joyce define a "cultural Catholic?"
(a) A Catholic who lived and breathed the religion.
(b) Someone who did not attend mass but still called himself a Catholic.
(c) Someone who was not Catholic but raised children as Catholics.
(d) A second generation Puerto Rican.

12. What did the children in the classroom Mrs. Zajac visited ask her for?
(a) Her photograph.
(b) Spare change.
(c) Her autograph.
(d) A book.

13. What was the name of the standardized tests given to sixth graders at Kelly School?
(a) The Elementary Skills Tests.
(b) The Basic Skills Tests.
(c) The California Aptitude Tests.
(d) The Meyers Briggs Tests.

14. What was the topic for Claude's Science Fair project?
(a) A water wheel.
(b) Formation of the oceans.
(c) The formation of rivers and streams.
(d) A laser beam.

15. What did Al say at the end of his talk to his teachers about the standardized tests results?
(a) "We're doing a good job. We really are."
(b) "We all try here. I know that."
(c) "We do the best we can do, and that's that."
(d) "We do the best with what we have, but we can do much better."

Short Answer Questions

1. What question did Mrs. Zajac begin asking herself in March?

2. While Robert was in time-out isolation, and Mrs. Zajac accidentally left him with a penny, what did he do with it?

3. What kinds of things appeared around Robert's desk during the school week?

4. What word did the author use to describe Mrs. Zajac's style in the classroom?

5. What did Mrs. Zajac dread telling Clarence before spring break?

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