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

2. In Chapter 4, what did the young boy in Mrs. Paley's class refuse to do?
(a) To talk to Mrs. Paley.
(b) To eat lunch.
(c) To go to the bathroom.
(d) To take a nap.

3. Where did Mrs. Paley accept a job in Chapter 3?
(a) A public segregated school.
(b) A private integrated school.
(c) A private segregated school.
(d) A public integrated school.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened after Mrs. Paley's limited the young boy in Chapter 5?

2. What was wrong with Fred?

3. What happened to Mrs. Paley when she moved back to Chicago?

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

5. What did Mrs. Paley's actions encourage for her students to do in Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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