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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. What was Holyoke's primary industry at the turn of the century?
(a) Automobile headlight production.
(b) Aluminum can production.
(c) Glass bottle production.
(d) Paper production.

2. What does Mrs. Zajac consider the cruelest form of prejudice a teacher can have?
(a) Not treating children equally due to their circumstances.
(b) Not assigning homework because it might be too hard.
(c) Treating white children better than others.
(d) Not expecting fifth graders to be able to read well.

3. What are "cumes"?
(a) Lesson plans.
(b) Detention lists.
(c) Student cumulative reports.
(d) Student hall passes.

4. What different kinds of reports did Mrs Zajac assign to her students monthly?
(a) Book, ancient history, and biology reports.
(b) Book, science, social studies reports, and several stories.
(c) Book, current events and general science reports.
(d) Book and history reports and creative writing.

5. What did students in Mrs. Zajac's class know by the end of the first day in social studies?
(a) Their continent and the oceans surrounding it.
(b) Their city, state, and country and where they were located on a map.
(c) Their name, address, and phone number.
(d) Their first three presidents.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many reading groups did Mrs. Zajac have in her classroom?

2. What did Mrs. Zajac write on the board daily before her students arrived?

3. What did Pedro's mother write on the bottom of his permission slip for the core evaluation?

4. What were the other subjects students had in the afternoons in Mrs. Zajac's class?

5. Counting all of her math and reading students, how many students did Mrs. Zajac teach every day?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Alphonse Laudato? What kind of job did he have at Kelly School? Did Mrs. Zajac like him? Why or why not?

2. What is the subject of Kidder's story? Is it fiction or non-fiction? How does he go about learning about his subject?

3. What was Mrs. Zajac's favorite saying, or mantra, to her students? What does she want her students to understand about learning?

4. How was Robert's behavior in class? What were Mrs. Zajac's concerns about both his work and his behavior? What new behaviors had Mrs. Zajac noticed?

5. Why did Mrs. Zajac allow her students to choose their own desks on the first day of school? What message did she want to send to her students? What did she learn about the children by allowing them their choice of seats?

6. What are some of the frustrations teachers teaching today face?

7. What were Mrs. Zajac's concerns about Pedro? What was his behavior like in class? What plan did she come up with learn more about Pedro?

8. What happened in the 1970's to the town of Holyoke? How did this affect the town and its economy? What plans did the state and local governments come up with to renew Holyoke?

9. How did Mrs. Zajac begin her school day? What did she teach in the mornings? Why was this a challenge?

10. What are "cume" folders? Why do teachers have them? What goes into them? How does Mrs. Zajac use the cumes and why?

(see the answer keys)

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