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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. Which student actually stabbed the substitute teacher in the back with a pencil?
(a) Serena.
(b) Esther.
(c) The students never reveal who it is.
(d) Billy Williams.

2. How does Ruben show his affectionate crush for Codell?
(a) Ruben makes sure to sit next to her during reading time, and he caresses her leg.
(b) After Codell says she likes the color red, Ruben wears nothing but red shirts to class.
(c) He frequently leaves a gift on her desk after class is over.
(d) He writes to her in his journal, expressing his amorous feelings.

3. What poem, dedicated to Brandi, does Codell make her October 19th entry?
(a) How to Fold a Paper Snowflake.
(b) How to Tame a Tiger.
(c) How to Draw an Invisible Dragon.
(d) How to Teach Impossible Students.

4. According to Codell, what is Miss Clark's flaw as a teacher?
(a) Miss Clark is much too harsh, considering her urban students less than human.
(b) Miss Clark cares more about her boyfriend than about teaching, and she is lazy.
(c) Miss Clark spoils her children and desperately wants to be liked.
(d) Miss Clark is hopelessly disorganized, and never has a solid lesson plan in place.

5. How does Ms. Coil criticize Codell's teaching of Native Americans.
(a) Codell only teaches about one tribe, and Ms. Coil prefers a broader approach.
(b) Ms. Coil believes having a "powwow" stereotypes Native American culture.
(c) Ms. Coil believes fifth-graders are too old to dress up in Native American costumes.
(d) Ms. Coil is angry for not being informed about a field trip to the Native American History Museum.

Short Answer Questions

1. When an architect shows Codell her future classroom in Part I, which of the following is something Codell thinks?

2. What organization is established to evaluate Codell's Fairy Tale Festival proposal?

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

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

5. What does Codell call the subject of Math?

Short Essay Questions

1. Briefly describe the day when Billy Williams becomes teacher for a day.

2. What is Codell's approach to teaching about the Holocaust and Nazis?

3. What is Codell's rationale for insisting her students call her Madame Esme?

4. As related in Part I's first entry, what happens in Codell's first interviews for the position at the new public school?

5. What is the Fairy Tale Festival?

6. What are Codell's impressions about her former students graduating from middle school?

7. What is The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes about, as described in a September 27 entry?

8. What February 15 incident nearly results in Codell quitting the school?

9. Describe the Storyteller Festival.

10. What changes does Ms. Coil suggest in a January 18 entry, and what does Codell think of these suggestions?

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