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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: February, what board game do the students play in the morning?

2. In Part One: February, what does Mr. Terupt tell Peter about the word "babes"?

3. In Part Two: May, what does Anna ask Danielle as they leave the waiting room?

4. In Part Two: May, what does the class share in the waiting room?

5. In Part One: February, what does Danielle ask?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part Two: March what does Luke find out when he goes to see Mr. Terupt for the second time? Why is this information important?

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

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

4. In Part Two: April, what does James in the Collaborative Classroom say to Peter? What does this allow to happen?

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

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

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

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

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

10. In Part Two: March, what surprises Anna about Danielle's brother Charlie? What does she think about her mom and him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Because of Mr. Terupt has all the student's voices chiming in, and building the stories of each chapter together. Why is the novel told in so many different voices? How does the structure of each part contribute to the overall story? Why is this the best choice for the story? Finally, how does the structure of the novel contribute to the story, or how does the structure show what is at the heart of the story?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

In the beginning, Luke says that Mr. Terupt should not have let them get away with so much, foreshadowing that we discussed in previous lessons. His line of thinking is that one thing leads to another. Choose one thing that happens in the beginning of the novel, and trace it to how it changes throughout. How does the novel show one thing leading to another? And does it lead for good, or bad, or both?

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