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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: November, what does Jessica notice a bout Jeffrey?

3. In Part One: November, what does Luke say Mr. Terupt does with Peter instead of getting mad?

4. How does Luke feel about school in Chapter One: September?

5. In Part One: December, what does Mr. Terupt do with Alexia?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Part One: November, what is the new math project that Mr. Terupt assigns? How do the class go about this project?

3. What does Peter usually do to skip class as said in Part One: September? Why does he decide that Mr. Terupt is cool?

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

5. 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?

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

7. 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?

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

9. 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?

10. How does Anna describe herself in Part One: September? What does she notice about Mr. Terupt's classroom?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

When Mr. Terupt is first injured, all of the students blame themselves. Why do you think they each feel guilty? What does the novel show about what guilt does? What finally sets this guilt free? Think about Jeffrey's example of how he moves past his guilt with his parents and if this is true for the other character's guilt.

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