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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 Two: June, what do the kids do when they see Mr. Terupt?

2. In Part Two: May, what does Peter share to the class?

3. In Part Two: April, what does Ms. Kelsey share?

4. In Part One: March, what does Luke do when he sees Mr. Terupt?

5. In Part One: February, what does Peter do to Lexie?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part Two: March, what do the girls see when they go to see Mr. Terupt in the hospital? What happens in Mr. Terupt's hospital room?

2. In Part One: February, what does Jefferey say he learns about Luke? How does he say he feels towards Peter and what does he intend to do to him?

3. In Part Two: March, what does Luke decide to do? What does he see when he gets there?

4. In Part Two: April, what does Jeffrey do with his family? How does his family respond?

5. In Part Two: April, what does Jessica repeat to herself about Mr. Terupt? How does she see this idea already having effect?

6. In Part Two: May, what does Jeffrey bring to the waiting room with him? What do he and the class do with this?

7. In Part Two: May, what does Dr. Wilkins say about Mr. Terupt's surgery? Is this a good sign or bad sign?

8. In Part One: February, there is a series of one to two sentence of the classroom students speaking. What is implied by these voices that happens and how is it implied?

9. In Part One: February, what does Peter do to Lexie when they get outside? What happens to him in return?

10. In Part Two: April, what does Anna find out about her mom and Charlie? How does her mother say Charlie changed?

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

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 3

Danielle and Anna want to be friends, but have a feud going back generations from their families. How do they undo this feud? What about the classroom, outside influences, and one another allows them to think and feel differently? What is the novel showing about undoing beliefs and prejudices with this?

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