Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

Esmé Raji Codell
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 165 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

Esmé Raji Codell
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 165 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: Pages 165 through 185.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What activity did Codell have the class do to learn about light?
(a) Paint rainbows, showing the accurate colors of a rainbow.
(b) Stage a shadow-puppet show.
(c) Calculate the speed of light with a shoe box with a pinhole in it.
(d) Learn Morse Code by clicking flashlights on and off.

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

3. What was Codell's impression of prostitutes on her block as a young child?
(a) Codell admires them for their bold, colorful clothing choices.
(b) Codell is tricked by her father into believing they are movie stars.
(c) Codell know about the nature of their profession and is disgusted by them.
(d) They constantly curse at Codell, and she avoids them whenever possible.

4. What occurs on the bus ride to the university science fair on October 13?
(a) The students manage to finish a lengthy "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall" sing-a-long.
(b) The bus is attacked by gang members, who throw rocks at the windows.
(c) Codell must break up a fight between two female students.
(d) The bus suffers a flat tire, and the students miss the fair.

5. Why do school administrators reject Codell's proposal for the Fairy Tale Festival?
(a) The festival is too ambitious.
(b) Administrators cannot agree on the day to have the festival.
(c) Many of Codell's proposals pose a danger to safety.
(d) The subject matter is inappropriate in a school setting.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Codell respond favorably to the educational chiropractor?

2. What is one of the songs Codell hears in her mind when Mr. Turner is frustrating her?

3. What is Ozzie's Native American name, as given to her in a naming ceremony?

4. Why is Codell's day spoiled on April 11th?

5. Which student actually stabbed the substitute teacher in the back with a pencil?

(see the answer key)

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