Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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 | Eight Week Quiz F

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 149 through 165.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When an architect shows Codell her future classroom in Part I, which of the following is something Codell thinks?
(a) She does not like the "new construction" smell, preferring the unique smell of a school classroom.
(b) She is glad her classroom is so far away from Mr. Turner's office.
(c) She wishes the classroom was on the second story for safety reasons.
(d) The classroom will be much too small for her expected number of students.

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

3. When Mr. Turner sees Codell and several of her students wearing saris, what does he think?
(a) He believes Codell is mocking his own wearing of a sari two weeks earlier.
(b) He believes Codell is a terrible influence on her students.
(c) He believes Codell is having a cultural festival.
(d) He believes Codell is performing an open act of defiance.

4. What film, the first classic film Codell shows, is shown in October 15?
(a) The Miracle Worker.
(b) Casablanca.
(c) Citizen Kane.
(d) The Bishop's Wife.

5. How is the Fairy Tale Festival related to the Storyteller Festival?
(a) Codell gets to use several ideas from the Storyteller Festival for the Fairy Tale Festival.
(b) Codell gets to use several ideas from the Fairy Tale Festival for the Storyteller Festival.
(c) At both festivals, Mr. Turner scolded Codell with entirely minor criticisms.
(d) Ms. Coil enthusiastically endorses both festivals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is NOT one of the activities Codell proposes for the Fairy Tale Festival?

2. In the first entry of the book, how does Codell respond when asked what she would do if a student uttered a curse word in her classroom?

3. Codell insists Mr. Turner refer to her by what title?

4. Where does Codell take her students on January 20?

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

(see the answer key)

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