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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. Why was Angelo sad in Chapter 1?
(a) He dreamed of being alone.
(b) His best friend moved.
(c) He forgot his toy for show and tell.
(d) He forgot the rule.

2. How many kids from Paley's class seemed happy about this new rule?
(a) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 18.
(d) 21.

3. Who helps Annabella and her father board the waiting ship?
(a) A sailor.
(b) The tiny flower people.
(c) Alexandra.
(d) No one.

4. In Chapter 2, who comforts Beatrice after she cries and helps her feel accepted?
(a) Prince Kareem.
(b) Magpie.
(c) Annabella.
(d) Mary Louise.

5. In the story Magpie told to the flower prince, what does the eagle steal?
(a) A magpie.
(b) A queen.
(c) A dog.
(d) A small child.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which grade revealed during questioning about the fairness of the new rule that they remembered it is bad not to let other kids play?

2. What surprises Prince Kareem about Magpie?

3. According to Paley in Chapter 1, some of the children believed that the point of play was to show what?

4. Clara, one of Paley's students, said she is rejected by whom?

5. Which one of Paley's student's did not understand the Magpie story, and Paley explained about the Magpie in her mind?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens while Annabella is bedding down for the night during the journey to Tall Pines?

2. What was the point of play, according to Paley's students in Chapter 1?

3. Why weren't Paley's students as excited as Annabella about new kids with whom they can play?

4. In reviewing her notes, before speaking in Arizona, Paley noticed that her students had expressed what reasons for opposing the rule?

5. According to Paley what social practice happens daily, and how did Angelo relate to this statement?

6. How were the second and third graders' responses to Paley's inquiries similar?

7. What did Paley realize about Lisa back in the classroom, in Chapter 2?

8. What does Kareem tell Annabella about the flowers that close up after she tried to pick them in the desert?

9. Back in the class, in Chapter 2, why was Nelson rejected in play?

10. Magpie and Annabella offer to help rescue the flower prince. What happens with the rescue?

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