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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, You Can't Play, The Habit of Rejection.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Paley looked back at discussions with her students and decided that play develops ____ and that this also develops out of play.
(a) Friendship.
(b) Tolerance.
(c) Competition.
(d) Acceptance.

2. In Chapter 1, the lonely princess in Magpie's story wanted help finding what?
(a) Her parents.
(b) A playmate.
(c) More birds.
(d) Candy.

3. Magpie and Kareem discover that they are both what?
(a) Story tellers.
(b) Book readers.
(c) Lonely.
(d) Happy.

4. On the journey to Magpie's Kingdom home, they reach ___ where Annabella wants to stop and smell the flowers.
(a) The Dessert.
(b) A Water Fall.
(c) A River.
(d) A Valley.

5. According to Magpie in Chapter 1, how many children live in the Kingdom that he calls home?
(a) 21.
(b) 18.
(c) 25.
(d) 14.

Short Answer Questions

1. Paley left her seemingly unhappy and stressed classroom to go to ___ to speak about happy classrooms.

2. Magpie tells a story about a lonely princess who wished for what to come and help her?

3. Magpie asks Annabella and Prince Kareem why they live where there are no ____, if they like them so much.

4. The ___ flowers close up when Annabella reaches to pluck one for her father.

5. Who is Maruska?

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