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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. At the end of Chapter 15, who comes to Mr. Kermit's classroom?

2. How many volts does Mr. Kermit think you could put to his students' feet and they still would not excel?

3. In Chapter 21, who is working with Parker on anagrams?

4. Who stops Elaine from choking on a cookie during the field trip to Terranova's?

5. What percent do first-place winners of the science fair get added to their grades on the state science assessment?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jake Terranova come to Mr. Kermit's classroom in Chapter 16?

2. Why does Kiana think that her half-brother Chauncey and Vladimir the gecko are alike?

3. Who works with Parker on anagrams, and why?

4. What does Jake talk about to the students when he comes to the middle school?

5. What do the students of SCS-8 see when they return to their classroom after Spirit Week?

6. What punishment do the students from SCS-8 get for the vuvuzela incident, and why does Mateo say it a worse punishment than it sounds?

7. What do Parker and the other kids from SCS-8 decide to do when the vuvuzelas are delivered to the school?

8. How does Jake remember that he survived the cheating scandal?

9. What is the Goodbunnies chart?

10. What does Mrs. Vargas say about Mr. Kermit when he was younger?

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

An allusion is a figure of speech that does not directly refer to a person, place, or thing. What are some allusions in the novel? Why might it be difficult to decipher an allusion just by the context of a passage in a book? Why might research be required to understand allusions?

Essay Topic 3

Parker struggles to read. Why does Parker struggle to read? Is Parker lazy or does he have an actual problem with reading?

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