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

2. What does Sheila do when she is told that she will not be able to go on the field trip with the class that afternoon?
(a) She goes after the other kids trying to hurt them.
(b) She destroys all of the papers in the room.
(c) She becomes enraged and bangs her head on the floor.
(d) She dumps Torey's desk and smashes items into the floor.

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

4. What does Torey tell Sheila makes her a good little girl?
(a) Torey.
(b) Behavior.
(c) Sheila.
(d) Society.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why isn't Torey sure she wants to return to graduate school?

3. What do Chad and Sheila do together?

4. Which of the following characters is often a source of laughter within Torey's classroom?

5. What does Sheila say she will write if she is given a piece of paper?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sheila seem when she returns to school and what does this make Torey worry about?

2. What information does Torey learn at the beginning of this chapter and how does Torey feel after she hears it?

3. What does Sheila's father do at the end of this chapter which gives Torey hope that he is trying to do the right thing?

4. What in this chapter is an example of the progress Sheila has made socially?

5. What does Torey come to find out Sheila has done which has led Freddie to get sick on a regular basis?

6. What realization do both Torey and Sheila come to about how they have changed?

7. What does Sheila continue to dwell on even though Torey asks her not to?

8. What is the epilogue composed of?

9. What new revelation has Sheila come to about the story of The Little Prince?

10. What does Sheila want to know when Torey returns to school after being at the conference?

(see the answer keys)

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