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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 is created over the hole to entice Annabella to come close enough to fall in?

2. Who raises Magpie?

3. How many kids from Paley's class seemed happy about this new rule?

4. After leaving the tiny flower people, Annabella, her father, and Magpie leave and cross the ___ mountain.

5. In Chapter 2, after Lisa told her story, Paley realized that Lisa wanted to be like who from the imaginary story?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what does Magpie do to help the people deal with a crying flower prince and how does flower prince respond?

2. In Chapter 1, how did teachers reinforce loneliness in children?

3. What do the tiny people tell Magpie and Annabella about the Seventh mountain?

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

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

6. In Chapter 2, we find out that the teachers were interested in Paley's new play rule, but didn't realize what?

7. What did second graders tell Paley when she did her inquiry with them?

8. In Magpie's story why is it important for the lonely princess to only play with the fairy child during the day, and what happens when she forgets this rule?

9. What convinces Annabella and Prince Kareem to accompany Magpie to his Kingdom home?

10. Following Magpie after the moving flowers over the mountain, what do they discover?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does or could Paley's new rule resolve or prevent certain issues that arise in the imaginary story? Cite several specific examples and provide supporting details.

Essay Topic 2

How effective is the Magpie story initiated by Paley, in Chapter 1, in engaging students in a dialogue about the rejection in play, and helping them connect with others so they feel a need to use Paley's new rule? Specifically discuss how several of the students change and/or remain the same after hearing the story and the surrounding discussions.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the symbolism of the blueberry bush leading the dragons out of the fog in Chapter 4 in relation to Paley's using the new rule and complementing story to help her students learn to include rather than exclude during play.

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