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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. Which child is especially shy about being a storyteller?
(a) Maurissa.
(b) Serena.
(c) B. B.
(d) Ozzie.

2. What special guest(s) arrive(s) for the Storyteller Festival?
(a) Michael Jordan.
(b) Connie Porter.
(c) Members of the Chicago Board of Education.
(d) Representatives from the foundation which gave Codell the grant for the festival.

3. What is the purpose of the class making a patchwork quilt?
(a) To teach about the Underground Railroad.
(b) To teach about the flowers of the fifty states.
(c) To teach about inventors.
(d) To teach about long division.

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

5. Why does Codell compare teaching to a bottle cap in her poem "How to Teach Learning"?
(a) Learning is a series of ups and downs, like the ridges on the side of a bottle cap.
(b) Learning is like uncapping the mind to a world of knowledge.
(c) Like a soda bottle cap that might announce "You are a winner!" learning should be special and surprising.
(d) Learning is incredibly difficult, just like trying to twist a bottle cap off.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which student does Codell believe has the potential to become a children's book illustrator?

2. What kind of film does Codell show for sexual education?

3. Who ultimately says "No" to Codell's proposal for the Fairy Tale Festival?

4. Why does Codell compare teaching to an apple in her poem "How to Teach Learning"?

5. On December 14th, older children steal which of Codell's classroom accessories?

(see the answer key)

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