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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 does Mr. Terupt tell the class?

2. In Part One: February, what happens to Peter?

3. In Part Two: May, what is the advice for Mr. Terupt's class?

4. In Part Two: May, what does Luke see about the waiting room?

5. In Part One: February, what game do the kids start playing?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In Part Two: March, who does Jessica say comes into the classroom? What does she say this person says?

6. In Part Two: May, how does Jeffrey feel in the waiting room, and who comforts him? Why does he feel this way?

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

8. In Part Two: April, what does Charlie tell Danielle about seeing Anna's mother? What does he say about the animosity between their two families?

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

10. In Part One: February, who gangs up to attack Peter? What does Peter do in return?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Alexia spends most of the school year tormenting both Jessica and Danielle, even though Danielle was formerly her friend. By the end of the novel, they are reunited. What does the novel show about where bullying come from? How can bullying be changed? Think about how Alexie changes, why she bullies, and how Mr. Terupt lectures the students who she bullies when they do not stand up to her.

Essay Topic 2

At the end of the novel, Mrs. Newberry tells Mr. Terupt that he is magic. What is Mr. Terupt's style of teaching? Summarize using three examples from the text. Then write, why does he teach in this way? How is his style of teaching and interacting with the kids a kind of magic?

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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