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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: December, what does Mr. Terupt do with Alexia?

2. In Part One: December, who does Jeffrey say was his brother?

3. In Part One: October, what happens with Anna and Daniella's plant?

4. In Part One: October, what does Jeffrey think because of what he sees Mr. Terupt do?

5. In Part One: November, what does Jeffrey say the Collaborative Classroom student James is?

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: November, why does Jessica ask Jefferey what his secret is? What does she first say is her secret?

3. In Part One: January, what does Mr. Terupt announce to the class that they get to do? Why do they get to do this?

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 is the new math project that Mr. Terupt assigns? How do the class go about this project?

6. Why is Jessica nervous to go to class in Part One: September? Why does she feel reassured?

7. In Part One: October, what does Lexie think and do when she sees Jessica and Danielle together? What is the "girl war"?

8. In Part One: November, what does Anna ask of Danielle and Jessica? Why does this worry Danielle?

9. In Part One: October, what does Anna say happened to her mother when she was younger? How has this affected Anna and her mother?

10. In Part One: January, what do the class members propose they do for their free day? How does Luke come to the rescue of this plan?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Luke blames Mr. Terupt, says in the beginning of the novel that he should have disciplined them differently, it would have gone differently. Jessica's mom agrees. Do you? Write a four argument why or why not Mr. Terupt is right or wrong how he disciplined the kids. Include at least four textual examples.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

In earlier lessons, we discussed archetypes, or stereotypes for each student. How do students change from their archetype or stereotype from the beginning of the novel to the end? What sparks this change? Choose three students to discuss how they start out, and how they end up by the end of the novel. Then think, why does the novel show this progression? Think about the earlier conversation about why the novel uses archetypes to consider why they show these changing.

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