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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 does Mr. Kermit have for breakfast in Chapter 8?

2. Who gets Barnstorm included in a pep rally in Chapter 6?

3. What student in SCS-8 is a fan of the Muppets?

4. What is the number of the room where Miss Fountain has her class?

5. In Chapter 2, how many months before Mr. Kermit can retire?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does not make sense to Parker regarding the vuvuzelas in Chapter 9?

2. Why does Aldo not like Kiana?

3. What does Kiana think about SCS-8?

4. What does Mateo do when he is bored, and how does he classify his family?

5. How does Parker's grandmother often make him late for school?

6. What happens when Kiana's stepmother drives her to school on the first day of school?

7. How does Mateo compare classmates to characters from TV and movies?

8. What bad news does Kiana get from her mother?

9. Why does Kiana think that Mr. Kermit cares for the students?

10. Why does Mr. Kermit think he needs to get groceries in Chapter 8?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

An inciting incident is a point in a book that draws the reader into the story and creates a conflict for the protagonist or stirs the protagonist to action. What is the inciting incident in The Unteachables? Why is that the inciting incident? How does it change the protagonist?

Essay Topic 2

Jake is involved in a cheating scandal when he is a middle school student. How is Jake involved in a cheating scandal? Why does Jake later feel guilty about the scandal and blame himself for what has happened to Mr. Kermit?

Essay Topic 3

The students in SCS-8 are called Unteachable. Why are these students called Unteachables? Why are they stigmatized with that epithet?

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