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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. What are "cumes"?
(a) Lesson plans.
(b) Detention lists.
(c) Student hall passes.
(d) Student cumulative reports.

2. What were the "middle person desks" in Mrs. Zajac's classroom?
(a) Desks behind the teacher's desk.
(b) Desks in the middle of the back row of the configuration.
(c) Desks in the hall for misbehavers.
(d) Desks in the middle of the U-shaped desk configuration.

3. What happened to Lisette, one of the quiet children in the room, in October?
(a) Her building burned down and her family moved away.
(b) She was chosen to be in a spelling bee.
(c) Her mother had a baby.
(d) She became sick and quit school.

4. What did Dick say to a classmate one day about Mrs. Zajac?
(a) "She can be a real pain."
(b) "She sees everything, so don't bother."
(c) "She knows every trick in the book."
(d) "She is a fun teacher but mean when she gets mad."

5. While teaching a lesson with one student, what did Mrs. Zajac do with her eyes as she taught?
(a) She walked around the room telling children what to do.
(b) She scanned the room and saw things in her peripheral vision.
(c) She sat behind her desk and was able to see everything going on.
(d) She constantly interrupted her lessons to discipline children.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children were in Mrs. Zajac's class?

2. What was the core evaluation Mrs. Zajac wanted to get started for Pedro?

3. Where did Mrs. Zajac and her husband live when they were first married?

4. What different kinds of reports did Mrs Zajac assign to her students monthly?

5. What was one thing Mrs. Zajac expected from her students?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the fifth grade class celebrate the Christmas break? What did Mrs. Zajac give each child as a Christmas gift?

2. Why were Fridays good days in Mrs. Zajac's fifth grade class? How did they compare to Mondays?

3. What was the name of Mrs. Zajac's school and where was it located? What did we know about the school? What was the make-up of the student body in her classroom?

4. Who was Alphonse Laudato? What kind of job did he have at Kelly School? Did Mrs. Zajac like him? Why or why not?

5. What subject did Mrs. Zajac's students have on Wednesday afternoons? How was the behavior in the classroom different from other times as the students prepared their Halloween project?

6. What kind of parent participation did Mrs. Zajac receive from her students' families? How did she respond to this situation?

7. What happened in the 1970's to the town of Holyoke? How did this affect the town and its economy? What plans did the state and local governments come up with to renew Holyoke?

8. Where was Mrs. Zajac born, and where did she grow up? What did her father do for a living? What was a unique quality about the town in which she was born?

9. What is the subject of Kidder's story? Is it fiction or non-fiction? How does he go about learning about his subject?

10. What was math class like for Mrs. Zajac? Why did they provide a particular challenge for her? How did she meet the challenge?

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