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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 One: January, what do Luke and James suggest for their free day?
2. In Part One: November, what does Peter do to Lexie in the field?
3. In Part One: January, how does Mr. Terupt's class decide how to use their day off?
4. In Part One: December, what does Jessica choose as her holiday focus?
5. In Part One: October, what does Jeffrey think because of what he sees Mr. Terupt do?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Part One: November, what does Peter do to Lexie in the soccer field? What does Luke say about this incident?
2. In Part One: October, what does Peter say is the class science project? What does he bring in to contribute to the project?
3. In Part One: December, what Christmas activity does Mr. Terupt propose? What does Peter say to add to this activity and how does this show a change of heart for him?
4. What does Peter usually do to skip class as said in Part One: September? Why does he decide that Mr. Terupt is cool?
5. In Part One: November, what does Lexie say Mr. Terupt says to her? Which part of this message does Lexie focus on and how does she feel about this?
6. In Part One: November, what is the new math project that Mr. Terupt assigns? How do the class go about this project?
7. Why is Jessica nervous to go to class in Part One: September? Why does she feel reassured?
8. How does Anna describe herself in Part One: September? What does she notice about Mr. Terupt's classroom?
9. In Part One: November, what does Jeffrey tell Jessica is his secret? How does Jessica respond and how does Jeffrey take this response?
10. In Part One: November, where do the kids in the classroom visit and why? How does Jeffrey act differently in this visit?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the beginning of the novel, Jessica says she hopes there is a happy ending. By the end of the novel, Luke says there is a happy ending. How does a happy ending come a full circle? Does a happy ending mean nothing painful happens? Finally, is there anything else in the novel that comes around or comes full circle?
Essay Topic 2
After Mr. Terupt's accident, the students avoid one another at first and do not talk to one another. Later, they reunite and forgive one another. Think about how the novel is laid out with Mr. Terupt's injury, the separation, and then coming back together. When something disruptive happens in a community, what layers of reconciliation need to take place for the community to come back together?
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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