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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Pages 112 through 134.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Codell call the subject of Science?
(a) Natural Wonders.
(b) Mad Scientist Time.
(c) Chem-o-Rama.
(d) Dr. Weird's Wonderful World.

2. What theme does Codell choose for her students for their Christmas assembly?
(a) It's a Hairy Merry Christmas.
(b) Ye Olde London Christmas.
(c) California Christmas.
(d) A Cajun Christmas.

3. Why does B. B. sleep over at Codell's apartment one night?
(a) B. B. celebrates his birthday with a half dozen other kids who also stay the night.
(b) Codell is rewarding B. B. for winning a game show contest in class.
(c) B. B.'s mother fears violence from her abusive boyfriend.
(d) B. B.'s mother threw him out, and he is homeless for one night before becoming a ward of the state.

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

5. What does Codell find is particularly effective when it comes to teaching about Nazism?
(a) She chooses a well-respected history book on the subject to read aloud with the class.
(b) She decides to skip the teaching of Nazis; her class is simply too young.
(c) She compares Nazis to Ku Klux Klan members, giving the children a group they are more familiar with.
(d) She chooses to show a brief film clip of Hitler delivering a speech.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Codell angry after she breaks up a fight between two girls on December 8th?

2. What animal does Melanie do her vertebrate report on?

3. Who provides Codell with an explanation as to why her substitute got stabbed in the back with a pencil?

4. What is the plot of the story "The Pudding Like the Night on the Sea"?

5. According to Codell, what is Miss Clark's flaw as a teacher?

(see the answer key)

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