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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Mrs. Paley urge the school district to do in Chapter 3?
(a) To segregate the schools.
(b) To desegregate the schools.
(c) To offer learning alternatives.
(d) To bus black children into their schools.

2. What was every picture of that Rena drew?
(a) Her best friend who was black.
(b) Black characters.
(c) Trees.
(d) Her dog.

3. Who made Mrs. Paley dislike her job at one point?
(a) A young white girl.
(b) A child not like Steven.
(c) A child like Steven.
(d) A parent of a white boy.

4. What did the girl announce in Chapter 24?
(a) She hated black kids.
(b) Her father had left her family.
(c) She hated white kids.
(d) She was sick.

5. Where dis Mrs. Paley eventually place the disruptive boy in Chapter 4?
(a) By the trashcan.
(b) Time out chair.
(c) The hallway.
(d) Time out corner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What experiences did Mrs. Paley draw from her own life to relate to her job's issues?

2. What had developed in the classroom by Chapter 12?

3. What did Mrs. Paley try after the incident with the young boy in Chapter 4?

4. What did the person who came to talk to Rena tell her in Chapter 1?

5. What did the visitor ask the child to do in Chapter 12?

(see the answer key)

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