2. What teaching guidelines are given to the school by the Michael Jordan Foundation?
(a) The Slam Dunk Doctrines.
(b) The 3-Pointers of Success.
(c) The Jordan Rules.
(d) The Championship Way.

3. Which best describes an aspect of Codell's philosophy of reading out loud to the class?
(a) Any difficult words should be immediately looked up in the dictionary.
(b) Each child should have a book, so they can follow along with the reading.
(c) The teacher should read words very slowly and loudly.
(d) The teacher should often stop to have discussions about the text.

4. What conflict resolution does Kyle agree to with Zykrecia?
(a) Kyle will bring her lunch for a week.
(b) Kyle agrees to return the pencil he stole.
(c) Kyle agrees to bake her a cupcake for her upcoming birthday.
(d) Kyle agrees to never speak to Zykrecia again.

5. What is Codell's response when Rowisha tells her about B. B.'s horrible home life?
(a) Codell mocks Rowisha, making matters worse.
(b) Codell believes that even bad home circumstances are no excuse for bad behavior at school.
(c) Codell is so moved by the tragic story that she gives Rowisha two hundred dollars.
(d) Codell and Rowisha cry together, and later they become friends.

6. Why do Ozzie's grades plummet?
(a) Ozzie is malnourished.
(b) His mother's ex-boyfriend is verbally and physically abusive.
(c) Ozzie has joined a gang.
(d) Ozzie has developed dyslexia.

7. How does Codell prepare her students for the Storytelling Festival?
(a) She gives them voice lessons.
(b) She has them dress as the main character of their story.
(c) She has them practice telling their stories in younger-aged classes.
(d) She makes them memorize their stories forwards as well as backwards.

8. When do parents "throw a tantrum" at Esme's new school (as of the Epilogue)?
(a) When not enough extracurricular activities are available.
(b) When their kids get F's.
(c) When their kids get C's.
(d) When the football team fails to make the state finals.

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

10. What kind of speeches are delivered at the middle school graduation ceremony, according to Codell?
(a) They are noble and uplifting.
(b) They are funny and endearing.
(c) They seem to be pleas to the students not to start a life of crime.
(d) They scold the student body for a recent gang incident at the school.

11. Why does B. B. start to misbehave around 1:20 PM every day?
(a) Codell never figures out why he suddenly changes at this time.
(b) B. B. knows he is missing his favorite cartoon show at that time.
(c) B. B. is faced with the prospect of going home to his wheelchair-bound father.
(d) B. B. never has anything to eat at lunch.

12. What is the "last straw" that causes Codell to force Mr. Turner to suspend B. B.?
(a) B. B. refuses to do his homework.
(b) B. B. calls her a bad name.
(c) B. B. steals a book.
(d) B. B. sneaks into the girls' bathroom.

13. What does Jim Trelease blame for poor reading scores in "a certain western state"?
(a) Lack of library funding.
(b) Inner-city crime.
(c) Lazy students.
(d) Lazy teachers.

14. What activity did Codell have the class do to learn about medieval history.
(a) Make a castle out of marshmallows.
(b) Read Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and act out some of the stories.
(c) Make a diagram of all the parts of a knight's armor.
(d) Have a mock jousting tournament.

15. According to the end of Part II, what is Codell's ultimate career aspiration?
(a) She wishes to join the teachers' union full-time.
(b) She wishes to remain a teacher of fifth-graders.
(c) She wants to be a school librarian.
(d) She wishes to become a school principal.