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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would Ayana often smooth over?
(a) The hurt caused by Sylvia.
(b) Crying students.
(c) Break ups in the class.
(d) Fights.

2. What did Mrs. Paley struggle with at the beginning of "White Teacher"?
(a) Discipline.
(b) How to deal with issues of race without creating a bigger problem.
(c) How to teach blacks.
(d) How to mix blacks with whites in the classroom.

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

4. What did Mrs. Paley try after the incident with the young boy in Chapter 4?
(a) An old technique.
(b) A new technique.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Playtime.

5. What was interesting about the other teacher's assumptions about Fred's problems?
(a) They assumed he was retarded, like every other black student.
(b) They never assumed that about white children with the same problems.
(c) They were being really mean.
(d) They were being really kind.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was Mrs. Paley with in the preface?

3. What did the young boy in Mrs. Paley's class do to be scolded in Chapter 4?

4. Who did Mrs. Paley contact after she considered the child had a learning disability?

5. Whose mothers were both becoming doctors in Chapter 7?

(see the answer key)

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