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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. What does Alexia say she starts in Chapter One: September?
2. In Part One: January, what problem does Jessica have with the free day?
3. In Chapter One: September, where do we learn Daniella lives?
4. In Part One: December, what does Jeffrey tell Jessica happened to Michael?
5. In Part One: October, what does Alexia think when she sees Jessica talking to Daniella?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Part One: November, what does Jessica's Mother say about Anna's Mother to Jessica? How does Jessica relate this idea to her mom's relationship to her father?
2. In Part One: January, where do Jessica and her Mother go? What does Jessica's mother do when they are there?
3. What is Danielle's relationship with Alexie in Part One: September? Why does Danielle struggle to make friends at school?
4. In Part One: October, what does Lexie think and do when she sees Jessica and Danielle together? What is the "girl war"?
5. What does Peter usually do to skip class as said in Part One: September? Why does he decide that Mr. Terupt is cool?
6. In Part One: November, why does Jessica ask Jefferey what his secret is? What does she first say is her secret?
7. What math activity does the class play in Part One: September? What dollar word does Luke come up with and why is this word a joke?
8. In Part One: January, why does what Jessica says to Jeffrey about Michael stick in Jeffrey's mind? How does Jeffrey describe his parents and their house?
9. In Part One: November, what does Anna ask of Danielle and Jessica? Why does this worry Danielle?
10. In Part One: October, what does Luke bring in for his plant? What happens when he mixes this to put on the plant?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
The title of the book is Because of Mr. Terupt. Think about what title means for the novel. What happens because of Mr. Terupt? What does the novel show about the impact of a good teacher?
Essay Topic 3
Because of Mr. Terupt has all the student's voices chiming in, and building the stories of each chapter together. Why is the novel told in so many different voices? How does the structure of each part contribute to the overall story? Why is this the best choice for the story? Finally, how does the structure of the novel contribute to the story, or how does the structure show what is at the heart of the story?
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