Chapter 22 Final Check

Chapter 22 Final Check

Multiple Choice

At Eastman High School reunions, the conversation usually gets around to the question "Who was our best teacher?" And year after year, the ______ of the graduates has been that Mr. MacDonald was the best. Many remember Joe MacDonald as the epitome of teaching --- the teacher against whom they measured all others.

• consensus

• niche

• transcend

• deplete

• complacent

Multiple Choice

He had started his professional life as a highly paid attorney. However, never at home with the law, he left his lucrative practice and found his _____ as an English teacher in the shabby classrooms at Eastman.

• consensus

• niche

• transcend

• deplete

• complacent

Multiple Choice

Mr. MacDonald somehow helped his students _____ their broken-down surroundings and experience the magic in the words of Shakespeare, Dickinson, or Frost. Even those who tended to shun reading began to think there might be something to this literature stuff after all.

• consensus

• niche

• transcend

• deplete

• complacent

Multiple Choice

Mr. MacDonald's enthusiasm for his work was never _____(e)d. In fact, instead of being used up, his enthusiasm actually increased throughout the years.

• consensus

• niche

• transcend

• deplete

• complacent

Multiple Choice

But Mr. MacDonald never became blasé; he was as _____ as an eager first year teacher.

• diligent

• empathy

• waive

• menial

• commemorate

Multiple Choice

Other teachers became ______ about their work and did only cursory lesson preparation.

• consensus

• niche

• transcend

• deplete

• complacent

Multiple Choice

He could often be found talking with students after school, as his great _____ had given him the reputation of being someone who understood students' problems.

• diligent

• empathy

• waive

• menial

• commemorate

Multiple Choice

He was fun, too. On the first really beautiful spring day of each year, he'd _____ his lesson plan and take the class outdoors to sit in the sunshine and talk about literature.

• diligent

• empathy

• waive

• menial

• commemorate

Multiple Choice

And no task was too _____ for him. He was often seen picking up trash from the grounds--- something other teachers would never condescend to do.

• diligent

• empathy

• waive

• menial

• commemorate

Multiple Choice

After Mr. MacDonald's retirement, his former students wanted to honor him in some way. They thought about a statue, but decided to _____ his teaching in the way that he'd like best, with a collage scholarship for an Eastman student, which was established in his name.

• diligent

• empathy

• waive

• menial

• commemorate