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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Torey tell the children they can do if they can behave?
(a) Come and sing to her.
(b) Help pick up the cake.
(c) Have a dish of ice cream.
(d) Have free time.

2. What two things does Torey suspect are linked for Sheila?
(a) She thinks Sheila's fear of failure and abandonment are linked.
(b) She thinks Sheila's speech and fear of failure are linked.
(c) She thinks Sheila's desire for revenge and refusal are linked.
(d) She thinks Sheila's need for love and abandonment fear are linked.

3. What does Torey ask Chad to do in regards to Sheila?
(a) To come into the classroom and meet Sheila.
(b) To talk to her father about the constant beatings.
(c) To talk to Ed on Sheila's behalf.
(d) To take on her case to keep her out of the state hospital.

4. Why does Torey wish she had a teacher's desk in her room after talking to Ed?
(a) So the room would seem like other classrooms.
(b) So she could lose herself in her work and forget her troubles.
(c) So she could hide behind it.
(d) So that she could have a place to put her head down.

5. Why is Torey almost glad for Sheila's hospitalization?
(a) She is learning to improve socially.
(b) She is making academic progress.
(c) Others are now more involved in her case.
(d) She is getting attention and three meals a day.

6. What news does Sheila share with the class after they return to school after the April snowstorm?
(a) Her roof collapsed from the weight of the snow.
(b) Her father got a new job.
(c) Her uncle is out of jail and staying with them.
(d) She made a new friend during the snowstorm.

7. What happened to the ice cream that Torey brought for the class?
(a) It was taken by the fifth grade class by mistake.
(b) It melts because the freezer broke.
(c) The children destroy it during playtime.
(d) Whitney drops it and it is ruined.

8. What does Chad suggest they do to celebrate the win of Sheila's court case?
(a) Buy Sheila a dress.
(b) Go for ice cream.
(c) Give the family money for food and clothes.
(d) Go out for pizza.

9. What does Sheila want to discuss over and over?
(a) She wants to talk about how her mother abandoned her.
(b) She wants to talk about why she couldn't go on the field trip.
(c) She wants to discuss Torey's absence over and over.
(d) She wants to talk about how Torey visited her house.

10. Why does Peter need to go to a special classroom instead of a regular room?
(a) Low academic skills.
(b) Seizures.
(c) Violent tendencies.
(d) Lack of appropriate social skills.

11. What does Torey notice when Sheila's father arrives at the hospital?
(a) He no longer wants Sheila.
(b) He is not a legal guardian.
(c) He brings the uncle with him.
(d) He is drunk.

12. What surprises Torey about Sheila's hospital stay?
(a) They left her alone and unsupervised.
(b) They put her in a crib.
(c) They will not allow her to have any visitors.
(d) The doctor's were unable to help her.

13. Why isn't Torey sure she wants to return to graduate school?
(a) She would have to leave her class and Chad.
(b) She will be unable to work with kids.
(c) She will miss the students.
(d) She thinks it may be too much work for her.

14. What does Sheila say to Torey that she wishes?
(a) That she had never burned the boy.
(b) That Torey and Chad were her parents.
(c) That her father had come with her.
(d) That she could have a dress.

15. What is Torey worrying about with only three weeks of school left?
(a) Things that should have been done.
(b) What she will do next year.
(c) How to say goodbye to her students.
(d) How she will break the news to Chad that she is leaving.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the program, what does Torey see Sheila's father do for the first time?

2. What subject does Torey put a particular emphasis on within her classroom that the other children seem to really enjoy?

3. What happens to Sheila when Chad presents her with the new dress?

4. Why does Sheila hang back when the other students head out for recess?

5. What does Sheila insist about her writing?

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