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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: April, what is it announced Mr. Terupt will have?

2. In Part One: March, why does Danielle's Grandma not want her to go to the hospital?

3. In Part Two: May, what does Jessica's mom say about her breakup with her husband?

4. In Part Two: April, what does Jessica wonder about Mr. Terupt's accident?

5. In Part Two: April, what does Luke say about Peter?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part Two: March, what does Mrs. Williams say about the snowball? What does Jessica think about this?

2. In Part Two: March, what does Alexie say to Mr. Terupt? How does she feel Mr. Terupt helps her?

3. In Part Two: April, how does Luke say Peter seems to feel? Why does Luke not want to tell Peter the truth?

4. In Part One: February, what game does the class play at the beginning of the hour? What does Peter tease Luke about and what does Mr. Terupt say?

5. In Part Two: June, what does Mrs. Williams announce to the class? What does this mean for Mr. Terupt and Grade Five?

6. In Part Two: May, what do Jessica and the class go to do? What does Jessica realize about Mr. Terupt?

7. In Part Two: June, what does Alexie notice about Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Newberry? What does this make her think?

8. In Part Two: March, what does Jeffrey think about Mr. Terupt being in a coma? How does he relate this to his brother?

9. In Part Two: May, whose fault does Jessica's mom think the accident was? Why does she think this?

10. In Part Two: April, what is Anna's shocking news? What does Danielle say to this?

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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