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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: October, why is Anna upset with the plant experiment?

2. In Part One: January, who comes to Jessica's snow pant rescue?

3. Why is Jessica nervous in Chapter One: September?

4. In Part One: January, who guesses the amount of links for the chain?

5. In Part One: January, what does Anna's mom tell Anna about Jessica and her mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part One: November, what does Lexie say to Danielle about the other members of their Collaborative Classroom group? What does Danielle finally say, and realize, in response?

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: October, what does Jeffrey overhear when the class is forced to vacate because of the smoke? What does he think about what he overhears?

4. In Part One: November, what does Peter do to Lexie in the soccer field? What does Luke say about this incident?

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

6. In Part One: January, how many links does it take for the chain to reach the floor? Who correctly guesses the answer?

7. 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?

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

9. In Part One: December, what happens with Lexie, Danielle, Anna, Jeffrey, and Jessica's group? How does Mr. Terupt intervene and what does he say to the group members besides Lexie?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Think about how the students home life affects how they are in school. How do their parent's behavior towards the students affect them? How do the students learning new concepts or idea allow them to change their parents, or think differently? Choose three of the students, write their relationship with their parents, and then how this changes over the novel.

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

Jessica in Part Two April says that everything happens for a reason. What do you think is the reason for Mr. Terupt's accident for each of the students involved? What about for Mr. Terupt? How does thinking this way allow us to accept difficult and painful things in our lives? And do you agree with Jessica's idea?

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