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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. In Part One: January, how does Mr. Terupt's class decide how to use their day off?
2. In Part One: January, where do Jessica and her mom go?
3. In Chapter One: September, what does Jeffrey not want Mr. Terupt to do?
4. In Part One: January, what does Jeffrey say about his mother?
5. In Part One: December, what does Peter do to Luke?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Part One: November, what does Anna ask of Danielle and Jessica? Why does this worry Danielle?
2. In Part One: November, what does Jessica's Mother say about Anna's Mother to Jessica? How does Jessica relate this idea to her mom's relationship to her father?
3. Why is Jessica nervous to go to class in Part One: September? Why does she feel reassured?
4. In Part One: January, where do Jessica and her Mother go? What does Jessica's mother do when they are there?
5. In Part One: November, what does Peter do to Lexie in the soccer field? What does Luke say about this incident?
6. How does Anna describe herself in Part One: September? What does she notice about Mr. Terupt's classroom?
7. In Part One: October, what does Anna say happened to her mother when she was younger? How has this affected Anna and her mother?
8. In Part One: November, what is the new math project that Mr. Terupt assigns? How do the class go about this project?
9. In Part One: October, what does Peter say is the class science project? What does he bring in to contribute to the project?
10. What does Peter usually do to skip class as said in Part One: September? Why does he decide that Mr. Terupt is cool?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Luke blames Mr. Terupt, says in the beginning of the novel that he should have disciplined them differently, it would have gone differently. Jessica's mom agrees. Do you? Write a four argument why or why not Mr. Terupt is right or wrong how he disciplined the kids. Include at least four textual examples.
Essay Topic 2
Think about how the students home life affects how they are in school. How do their parent's behavior towards the students affect them? How do the students learning new concepts or idea allow them to change their parents, or think differently? Choose three of the students, write their relationship with their parents, and then how this changes over the novel.
Essay Topic 3
Over the course of several chapters, we learn Jeffrey's story. In November, we learn he knows a lot about autistic students, in October that his brother died, and in November that he thinks it is his fault. In Part Two, Jeffrey reunites and starts healing his relationship with his parent. Choose one other character in the book, and write their journey from their initial problem to its resolution. Then answer the question: what is the novel showing with this structure about time, and how healing happens as a process?
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