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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. How does Luke feel about school in Chapter One: September?
2. In Part One: December, what does Peter do to Luke?
3. In Part One: November, what does Mr. Terupt say the class is going to do?
4. In Part One: January, where do Jessica and her mom go?
5. Why is Jessica nervous in Chapter One: September?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. In Part One: November, what does Jeffrey tell Jessica is his secret? How does Jessica respond and how does Jeffrey take this response?
3. Why is Jessica nervous to go to class in Part One: September? Why does she feel reassured?
4. In Part One: January, what does Mr. Terupt announce to the class that they get to do? Why do they get to do this?
5. How does Anna describe herself in Part One: September? What does she notice about Mr. Terupt's classroom?
6. What is Danielle's relationship with Alexie in Part One: September? Why does Danielle struggle to make friends at school?
7. In Part One: December, what happens with Lexie, Danielle, Anna, Jeffrey, and Jessica's group? How does Mr. Terupt intervene and what does he say to the group members besides Lexie?
8. In Part One: October, what does Jeffrey overhear when the class is forced to vacate because of the smoke? What does he think about what he overhears?
9. In Part One: November, why does Jessica ask Jefferey what his secret is? What does she first say is her secret?
10. In Part One: January, why does what Jessica says to Jeffrey about Michael stick in Jeffrey's mind? How does Jeffrey describe his parents and their house?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Jeffrey realizes he always thought things were his fault, but that everyone has a fault, and everyone is hurting. What are the faults that everyone in the class has towards Mr. Terupt's accidents? Write out their faults, with examples for each from the text; then add on any ways you see those faults overlapping. How do they get past their own faults to see the faults of others, or that there is no fault at all?
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
In earlier lessons, we discussed archetypes, or stereotypes for each student. How do students change from their archetype or stereotype from the beginning of the novel to the end? What sparks this change? Choose three students to discuss how they start out, and how they end up by the end of the novel. Then think, why does the novel show this progression? Think about the earlier conversation about why the novel uses archetypes to consider why they show these changing.
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