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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 the story Magpie told to the flower prince, what does the eagle steal?
2. What is the name of the tiny people's Queen?
3. What is the name of the Kingdom from which Magpie has come?
4. In a news story Magpie tells the flower prince, the hero boy defeats a lizard with what?
5. According to the tiny people, the unsafe mountain is surrounded by ____ and clouds.
Short Essay Questions
1. How were the second and third graders' responses to Paley's inquiries similar?
2. According to Paley what social practice happens daily, and how did Angelo relate to this statement?
3. Beatrice overhears Annabella and Alexandra agreeing to be friends, and does what about this, and why?
4. What did Paley discover from talking to students about the "bosses" in play?
5. In Magpie's story why is it important for the lonely princess to only play with the fairy child during the day, and what happens when she forgets this rule?
6. In Chapter 1, how did teachers reinforce loneliness in children?
7. Why weren't Paley's students as excited as Annabella about new kids with whom they can play?
8. When speaking in Arizona, Paley discovered two ways teachers handled the rejection involved in play. What are they?
9. What convinces Annabella and Prince Kareem to accompany Magpie to his Kingdom home?
10. According to details in Chapter 1, how are Annabella and Alexandra different in appearance from each other?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Through the book. Lisa and Beatrice's behavior has fluctuated from one extreme to another. Explain these varying responses and connect them with how students (all grades) respond to Paley's experiment.
Essay Topic 2
Paley has come to the end of Chapter 2 in her book and is getting closer to imposing her new rule. Discuss Paley's developing dilemma about the fairness and feasibility of her own rule.
Essay Topic 3
In Chapter 4, Paley observes the evolving rule in relation to students learning democratic procedures; adapting the rule to cover story-telling; and no longer looking for loopholes. Discuss each of these results. How they came to be and how they affect the students and the rule itself. Citing details from previous chapters may be helpful.
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