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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: Pages 149 through 165.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Codell's response when Rowisha tells her about B. B.'s horrible home life?
(a) Codell is so moved by the tragic story that she gives Rowisha two hundred dollars.
(b) Codell and Rowisha cry together, and later they become friends.
(c) Codell mocks Rowisha, making matters worse.
(d) Codell believes that even bad home circumstances are no excuse for bad behavior at school.

2. Why doesn't Codell take Ms. Coil's suggestion that she should place student papers on her wall higher up?
(a) Codell believes the papers should be hung at the children's eye-level, so they can enjoy them.
(b) Placing them too high would be a distraction during class.
(c) Placing them higher would mean disassembling and reassembling the entire board.
(d) Codell simply wants to spite Ms. Coil and annoy her.

3. What is the "last straw" that causes Codell to force Mr. Turner to suspend B. B.?
(a) B. B. steals a book.
(b) B. B. sneaks into the girls' bathroom.
(c) B. B. refuses to do his homework.
(d) B. B. calls her a bad name.

4. Which of the following is NOT an activity Codell describes her class doing for Halloween?
(a) Reading The Bat-Poet and studying bats.
(b) Dramatizing the book Old Devil Wind for a kindergarten class.
(c) Dressing up as ghosts and playing a prank on a second-grade class.
(d) Holding a mummy-wrapping race.

5. Which is NOT one of the ways in which Codell's class learns about Native Americans?
(a) They perform a rain dance.
(b) They visit the zoo to see an American buffalo.
(c) They have a guest speaker come to share Native American artifacts.
(d) They dress up in authentically-researched Native American clothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mr. Turner object to Codell's school social committee guidelines on February 15th?

2. According to a November 10th entry, what did Codell's landlord call her father's apartment?

3. According to a November 2nd entry, what does Codell do to help teach about inventors?

4. Why doesn't Mr. Turner initially want to suspend B. B.?

5. What poem, dedicated to Brandi, does Codell make her October 19th entry?

(see the answer key)

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