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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are people's thoughts based on in relationship to blacks according to the first few chapters of "White Teacher"?
(a) Stereotypes.
(b) Facts.
(c) A documentary.
(d) Love.

2. Who did Mrs. Paley have a conversation with at the end of Chapter 3?
(a) A black parent.
(b) Her boss.
(c) Her mom.
(d) A white parent.

3. What did Mrs. Paley often struggle with when she was teaching?
(a) How to discipline.
(b) How to teach spelling.
(c) How to maintain control of the classroom.
(d) How to deal with racial differences.

4. What did Mrs. Paley notice about black children playing with other black children in the first few chapters?
(a) They thought blacks were inadequate.
(b) They clung to each other.
(c) Refusal to play with a white child.
(d) They saw white's were better.

5. In the preface, what was Mrs. Paley doing?
(a) Sharing a story.
(b) Taking a nap.
(c) Having lunch.
(d) Cooking a meal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Mrs. Paley go to for advice in Chapter 2?

2. What did Mrs. Paley limit the disruptive boy to from doing in Chapter 5?

3. What did the person Mrs. Paley was with ask her in the preface?

4. In Chapter 4, what happened the first time Mrs. Paley tried disciplining the disruptive boy?

5. Where did Mrs. Paley accept a job in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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