No Talking

Multiple Choice

1. C (Various chapters)

2. A (Various chapters)

3. D (Various chapters)

4. C (Various chapters)

5. A (Various chapters)

6. B (Chapter 13)

7. C (Various chapters)

8. A (Various chapters)

9. B (Various chapters)

10. D (Chapter 13)

Long Answer

1. The fifth-grade class, called the “Unshushables,” are well-known for being stubbornly noisy since they entered the first grade. The class was even given its own lunch period because the staff is afraid their noisiness may infect the other students at school. The students prove just as stubborn when staff members attempt to entice them to speak more than three words. The staff likely would describe the bunch as difficult to control, headstrong, and competitive. (Various chapters)

2. Dave is first interested in silence after reading about Gandhi’s practice of silence once a week. He breaks his silence, however, when he overhears Lynsey’s incessant talking about a sweater. The two challenge one another to a silent contest on the basis that members of their own gender will be better at the contest than those of the other. The boys are skeptical when Dave first tries to convince them to participate, but in the end, they decide to join in after seeing the girls rally for the cause; this indicates the students participated to prove a point about the superior gender.