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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 container does Codell create to allow students to symbolically rid themselves of worries?
(a) The Well of Worries.
(b) The Black Hole.
(c) The Little Brown Jug.
(d) Trouble Basket.

2. What subject does the student Codell makes teacher for a day choose to make a lesson from?
(a) Paper airplanes.
(b) Density.
(c) Monster movies.
(d) The Holocaust.

3. Why is Codell's day spoiled on April 11th?
(a) Someone stole a pack of stickers.
(b) Random gunfire erupts in the street, and a classroom window is shot out.
(c) Chicago experiences the worst rainstorm in fifty years.
(d) Mr. Turner reports her to the union for insubordination.

4. What is JoEllen's Native American name, as given to her in a naming ceremony?
(a) Girl Who Always Gets A's.
(b) Madame of Mathematics.
(c) Hair that Flows like Water.
(d) Girl with the Beautiful Lip Gloss.

5. What organization gives a teaching award to Codell, as described in the April 7 entry?
(a) The American Organization for Teaching Excellence.
(b) Chicago Area Reading Association.
(c) American Civil Liberties Union.
(d) The National Teachers' Association.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Codell teach the students to multiply double-digit numbers?

3. What song does Codell hear in her mind when she has recess duty?

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

5. According to the end of Part II, what is Codell's ultimate career aspiration?

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