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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Pages 45 through 71.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On the first day of school, how does Codell determine where the students will sit?
(a) Codell has the students choose numbered seating assignments from a hat.
(b) Students take turns picking numbered apples from a bulletin board.
(c) Students are seated in a large circle so everyone is equal.
(d) Students can choose their own seats on a first-come, first-served basis.

2. How does Codell eventually ensure her students do not steal books that they borrow?
(a) She makes students leave one of their shoes to ensure they return books.
(b) She collects $10 from students for each book they borrow, as collateral.
(c) She informs a child's parent when the child borrows a book.
(d) She develops an ID card system similar to a public library.

3. Why does Codell organize a field trip to the university science fair on October 13?
(a) To attend a lecture on physics in the real world.
(b) To help the kids demonstrate their backpack burglar alarm invention.
(c) To introduce her children to an erupting baking soda volcano.
(d) Because her students' standardized test scores in science were well below average.

4. Whose mother complains about Codell insisting on buying dictionaries for the children?
(a) Shira.
(b) Twanette.
(c) Vanessa.
(d) Asha.

5. What does Codell notice about the new class of teachers that will be teaching along with her at the new school?
(a) There is not one man among the new teachers.
(b) Codell is one of the few white women among the new teachers.
(c) Unlike Codell, most of the teachers are older veterans pulled from surrounding districts.
(d) There is a disproportionate amount of white, slender women in their twenties.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Codell's impression of the scary story contest she holds for Halloween?

2. How does the class respond to Ashworth's revealing of his missing digit.

3. Shira undergoes a change on December 13 when she begins dancing to which Christmas song?

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

5. What does Mr. Turner initially call Codell, which frustrates her?

(see the answer key)

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