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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 food item does the class make during cooking time today?
(a) Chocolate brownies.
(b) Chocolate-covered bananas.
(c) Chocolate-covered strawberries.
(d) Chocolate chip cookies.

2. How does Ed get Shelia to the classroom on her first day?
(a) Shoves her in the room.
(b) Carries her.
(c) Walks her in nicely.
(d) Drags her.

3. What does Sheila do when Torey finishes the math work with her and tells her to put the blocks away?
(a) She puts the blocks away and reads with the other kids.
(b) She goes to the corner and watches all of the other students.
(c) She walks back to the quiet chair and sits.
(d) She works with the blocks on her own.

4. What distracts Shelia and allows Torey to attempt to snatch away the pencil?
(a) Max stabs her with a pencil.
(b) Freddie begins uncontrollably laughing loudly.
(c) Peter screams and runs from the room.
(d) Susannah Joy comes into the room.

5. Why does Torey end up putting Shelia on her lap during the math activity?
(a) So she will feel safe.
(b) So she can help her complete the math activity.
(c) So she can talk quietly in her ear.
(d) So she cannot move.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sheila associate going to another class with in her own life?

2. What does Torey do to Shelia when it is time for lunch?

3. Why can the reader infer that many people view Torey's work as frustrating and sad?

4. What position did Torey have the previous year before Ed Somers contacted her about having a classroom of her own?

5. What does Torey say she will reward the other children with if they keep working when Sheila has her outbursts?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Torey stop asking Sheila questions about the scars she sees on her body as she bathes her?

2. What happens when Torey computes Shelia's score and what does this mean?

3. What expectations does Torey set for Sheila for the day?

4. What did Torey find most surprising in the file she read on Shelia and what did she think about the statement?

5. How does Shelia get to the classroom and how does she appear?

6. What does Torey tell the children about the Kobold box?

7. What does Sheila continue to refuse to do and what does she do as part of her refusal?

8. What information does Torey learn from the social worker that brings Sheila to school the next morning and how does that leave her feeling?

9. How does Torey view the children with which she works?

10. What does Torey say makes everything she puts into her work worthwhile?

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