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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What award does Codell receive during the events in the book?
(a) The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. award for outstanding new urban school teacher.
(b) The Caldecott Silver Teaching award.
(c) The Dr. Peggy Williams award for outstanding Language Arts teacher.
(d) The Connie Porter award for reading excellence.

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

3. Why is Codell's day spoiled on April 11th?
(a) Chicago experiences the worst rainstorm in fifty years.
(b) Random gunfire erupts in the street, and a classroom window is shot out.
(c) Someone stole a pack of stickers.
(d) Mr. Turner reports her to the union for insubordination.

4. 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 performing an open act of defiance.
(c) He believes Codell is a terrible influence on her students.
(d) He believes Codell is having a cultural festival.

5. In Codell's reading group method, what role does the "literary luminary" play?
(a) Defining difficult words in the text.
(b) Making questions up about the book.
(c) Reading passages out loud.
(d) Guessing what comes next in the plot of the book.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What important test does Codell's class take on May 13th?

4. What special guest(s) arrive(s) for the Storyteller Festival?

5. What is Codell's response when Rowisha tells her about B. B.'s horrible home life?

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