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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Codell tell her students about their "alphabet museum" in order to avoid potential embarrassment?
(a) The students should go home to share the museum with younger siblings or neighbors.
(b) The alphabet museum will be photographed for a local newspaper article.
(c) The alphabet museum will not be shared with anyone outside the classroom.
(d) The students are creating the alphabet museum for use by kindergartners.

2. What does Mr. Turner initially call Codell, which frustrates her?
(a) Miss Codell.
(b) Ms. Esme.
(c) Ms. Esme Raji Codell.
(d) Mrs. Cordell.

3. What does Codell notice about the new class of teachers that will be teaching along with her at the new school?
(a) There is not one man among the new teachers.
(b) There is a disproportionate amount of white, slender women in their twenties.
(c) Unlike Codell, most of the teachers are older veterans pulled from surrounding districts.
(d) Codell is one of the few white women among the new teachers.

4. Why do Codell and Mr. Turner fail to secure any donations, according to the July 28th entry?
(a) Most of the businesses approached are poor, small, and highly unlikely donors.
(b) They mistakenly try to approach businesses on a holiday when most are closed.
(c) Mr. Turner is rude to potential donors.
(d) They are working off of an incorrect list of potential donors.

5. Which is NOT one of the ways in which Codell's class learns about Native Americans?
(a) They have a guest speaker come to share Native American artifacts.
(b) They visit the zoo to see an American buffalo.
(c) They dress up in authentically-researched Native American clothing.
(d) They perform a rain dance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Codell's immediate supervisor at her work in Part I?

2. What container does Codell create to allow students to symbolically rid themselves of worries?

3. Which student actually stabbed the substitute teacher in the back with a pencil?

4. On the first day of school, how does Codell determine where the students will sit?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the story Codell tells about her landlord in a November 10 entry.

2. Describe the last day of school.

3. What is the significance of the blue, pink, and gold sari Codell receives?

4. What is Vanessa's problem with the Christmas assembly, and how does she overcome it?

5. What is Codell's philosophy about bad behavior, in respect to an incident with B. B.?

6. How does Codell believe that Mr. Turner chose the teachers for his school?

7. What question does Codell have for the "educational chiropractor" brought in by Mr. Turner?

8. Why does Codell take B. B. and his little sister in to her home for a night?

9. Explain the story of Ozzie becoming ill at school.

10. Describe some things Codell's class does for Halloween.

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