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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What group was Mike uninterested in joining?

2. As teenagers, where did Mike and his friends hang out?

3. How did Mike try to avoid his inadequacy in a particular subject?

4. Where did Mike and his team meet for dinner once a week?

5. How many pages were lists of questions in Mike's college Shakespeare course?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Mike do with his student's writings?

2. What did Mike remember most about his childhood school days?

3. What did Mike say happened when students received extrinsic rewards?

4. In school, how did Mike defend himself against things he couldn't understand?

5. What did Mike mean when he said the classroom could be filled with possibility?

6. During Mike's high school years, what were his feelings about going to college?

7. How did Mike feel that the students at Loyola related to each other?

8. Why did Mike say that he wrote "Lives on the Boundary"?

9. What lesson did Mike design to help his students better understand vocabulary?

10. How did Rosalie guide Mike in interacting with his students in El Monte?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how Mike's time at Loyola both helped and hindered him at UCLA. Use examples from the book.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how Mike challenged the education system that was in place at the time the book was written. Use examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how Mike's background affected his teaching methods. Use examples from the book.

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