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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 "dual captivity?"

2. Who was the principal of Kelly School when Mrs. Zajac was a teacher there?

3. What was something Mrs. Zajac liked about Pam's lessons for the children?

4. Where did Mrs. Zajac and her husband live when they were first married?

5. What was the favorite book Mrs. Zajac was reading to her students after recess daily?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the specific goals Mrs. Zajac had for all of her students in the fifth grade? Why did she consider these goals important?

2. How did the fifth grade class celebrate the Christmas break? What did Mrs. Zajac give each child as a Christmas gift?

3. In the first chapter, what does the reader learn about Mrs. Zajac? How old is she? How long has she been a teacher? Does she have a family?

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

5. Why were Fridays good days in Mrs. Zajac's fifth grade class? How did they compare to Mondays?

6. Where was Mrs. Zajac born, and where did she grow up? What did her father do for a living? What was a unique quality about the town in which she was born?

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. How did the students respond to Miss Hunt's leaving the class once her student teaching time was over? How did Mrs. Zajac respond? Which students surprised Mrs. Zajac when they were sad to see Miss Hunt go?

9. What is the concept of "dual captivity"?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are many differences in teaching in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and teaching today. There are also many things in teaching that have remained relatively the same for over a hundred years. Discuss the changes and the constants between teaching in the past and teaching today.

Essay Topic 2

Miss Hunt was the student teacher for sixteen weeks in the beginning of the school year. What suggestions did Mrs. Zajac give Miss Hunt as she prepared to go out into the world and teach? Why was each suggestion an important one?

Essay Topic 3

Who was Suzanne? What role did she play in Mrs. Zajac's life? Why did the writer tell us about Suzanne?

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