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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 experiences did Mrs. Paley draw from her own life to relate to her job's issues?
(a) Being a racist.
(b) Being an only child.
(c) Being a Jewish child.
(d) Being ugly.

2. What did Mrs. Paley note she tended to have higher expectations for?
(a) Those that are white.
(b) Those that are black.
(c) Those with higher economic background.
(d) Those with less economics.

3. What was Claire a victim of?
(a) Racism.
(b) Her mother's prejudices.
(c) Her father's prejudices.
(d) Neglect.

4. Who did Mrs. Paley want to explain her classroom's goings on to?
(a) No one.
(b) Herself.
(c) The student teacher.
(d) The principle.

5. What did Mrs. Paley realize ethnic speech had little to do with?
(a) Intelligence of the speaker.
(b) Knowledge of the speaker.
(c) Racial inequalities.
(d) Racial appreciations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Ayana's personality?

2. What did Mrs. Paley's action of ignoring racial differences do according to the conversation with the second person in Chapter 3?

3. Where did the child begin working in Chapter 12?

4. What did Mrs. Paley take a closer look at in relationship to ethnic speech?

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

(see the answer key)

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