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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does JoEllen ask Codell during sexual education?
(a) JoEllen wonders what her mom meant by the term "abortion."
(b) JoEllen wonders if sex has to take place underwater.
(c) JoEllen wonders if sex involves goldfish.
(d) JoEllen wonders if she will eventually lay an egg.

2. Why does Codell compare teaching to a bottle cap in her poem "How to Teach Learning"?
(a) Learning is incredibly difficult, just like trying to twist a bottle cap off.
(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 a series of ups and downs, like the ridges on the side of a bottle cap.

3. What kind of people too often dominate public education, according to Trelease?
(a) People like Ms. Federman.
(b) Ill-tempered people who are too quick to anger.
(c) Haughty, prideful, disconnected people.
(d) People like Esme Codell.

4. According to Esme, how do her new students in her new school (as of the Epilogue) behave?
(a) Like spoiled brats.
(b) Like gangster thugs.
(c) Like weird aliens.
(d) Like little angels.

5. Which student does Codell believe has the potential to become a children's book illustrator?
(a) B. B.
(b) Shira.
(c) Serena.
(d) Ashworth.

6. Why doesn't Codell respond favorably to the educational chiropractor?
(a) She thinks the rules being proposed are much too harsh for the students.
(b) She doesn't believe in the curriculum conformity he advocates.
(c) She believes her classroom seating arrangement is just fine without someone interfering.
(d) She wishes to sign her name "Madame Esme," and the educational chiropractor discourages this.

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

8. What does Codell tell B. B., which she later apologizes for?
(a) She says he is acting like a jerk.
(b) She tells B. B. he's very likely to end up in a street gang.
(c) She says she wishes B. B. was not in her class.
(d) She says B. B. deserved all the beatings his mother gave him.

9. How many stages does Codell create as part of her Storyteller Festival?
(a) One.
(b) Zero.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

10. What important test does Codell's class take on May 13th?
(a) The California Assessment of Learning.
(b) The Federal Standardized Exam.
(c) The Iowa Standardized Test of Basic Skills.
(d) The Illinois Standardized Test of Academic Proficiency.

11. What does Codell allow Kyle to do in order to perform better at math?
(a) Yell at the top of his lungs.
(b) Run two circles around the classroom.
(c) Stand on his head.
(d) Go to the bathroom to splash water on his face.

12. 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.

13. According to Codell, how must a teacher behave with a student to get him/her to learn?
(a) Tough and strict.
(b) Kind and nurturing.
(c) Coy and elusive.
(d) Aloof and disinterested.

14. How long after the events in the journal does Codell write her Epilogue?
(a) Two months.
(b) Twelve years.
(c) Three weeks.
(d) Three years.

15. Why is Codell afraid of B. B. returning from suspension?
(a) She is afraid Mr. Turner will doubt that the suspension was necessary at all.
(b) She is afraid B. B. will return with a gun and shoot her.
(c) She is afraid B. B. will beat up Vanessa in an act of revenge.
(d) She is afraid B. B. will decide to quit school altogether.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the educational chiropractor, how many units can a teacher teach per school year?

2. Which is NOT one of the reasons, according to Jim Trelease, that Educating Esme is "terribly relevant"?

3. How does Codell teach Melanie to control her destructive urges?

4. What activity did Codell have the class do to learn about medieval history.

5. What is the former occupation of Esme's current principal (as of the Epilogue)?

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