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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which two girls were obviously friends and wanted to sit together in class?
(a) Alice and Margaret.
(b) Alice and Courtney.
(c) Margaret and Judith.
(d) Courtney and Christine.

2. How many children in Mrs. Zajac's class ate free lunches?
(a) About three fourths.
(b) Very few.
(c) About half.
(d) About two thirds.

3. Why did Mrs. Zajac hold Clarence in her room after school on Friday?
(a) For not doing his homework.
(b) For screaming at the student teacher.
(c) For hitting other children.
(d) For rough-housing on the playground.

4. What was something Mrs. Zajac liked about Pam's lessons for the children?
(a) She was organized and a good disciplinarian.
(b) She had a strong teaching voice.
(c) She taught one thing at a time.
(d) She incorporated games into her teaching.

5. What did the principal of Kelly School identify as one of his better skills?
(a) Organization.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Discipline.
(d) Parent conferences.

6. What was the music teacher's Halloween project with Mrs. Zajac's students?
(a) To parade in their Halloween costumes.
(b) To record spooky sounds.
(c) To sing a Halloween song.
(d) To record Halloween spooky stories.

7. How many minutes did Mrs. Zajac give students to read whatever they want to?
(a) Fifteen minutes.
(b) Thirty minutes.
(c) Twenty-five minutes.
(d) No time, they were too busy.

8. What did Clarence say on his way out of his after-school meeting with Mrs. Zajac on Friday afternoon?
(a) "I'm never coming back."
(b) "I hate Mrs. Zajac!"
(c) "I hate this school!"
(d) "I'm too stupid for school."

9. What prevented Mrs. Zajac from teaching lessons for as long as she wanted?
(a) Classes switched rooms at the sound of the school bell.
(b) She spent too much time on discipline.
(c) She was too disorganized.
(d) She needed a break.

10. Where did Mrs. Zajac and her husband live when they were first married?
(a) Florida.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) California.
(d) Georgia.

11. Where was Old Ward Four?
(a) Outside the city limits.
(b) Just down the hill from the Flats.
(c) Up the hill from the Flats.
(d) A twenty-minute ride from the Flats.

12. Whose hand shot up for almost every question Mrs. Zajac asked the class?
(a) Anthony.
(b) Felipe.
(c) Chris.
(d) Clarence.

13. What did classroom management require as Mrs. Zajac practiced it?
(a) An enlargement of the senses.
(b) An acting out of strength over weakness.
(c) A period of trial and error.
(d) A constant struggle against violence.

14. What quality did Mrs. Zajac think Pam displayed that was most important for a new teacher?
(a) Her detachment from the children.
(b) Her determination to get through her assigned work.
(c) The emotion she brought to the job.
(d) The sense of order she wanted to have.

15. Where did Mrs. Zajac eat lunch every day and with whom?
(a) In the teachers' room with her friend Mary Ann.
(b) In the cafeteria at the teachers' table.
(c) Outside on a picnic table in the playground.
(d) In her car where there was peace and quiet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mrs. Zajac tell her students to think when they hand in their work to her?

2. What happened if a student did not hand in their best work?

3. What happened to a young substitute who came to Kelly School for the first time?

4. What did students in Mrs. Zajac's class know by the end of the first day in social studies?

5. When Clarence was particularly nasty to Pam, what did Judith say to him?

(see the answer keys)

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