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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 the person Mrs. Paley was with ask her in the preface?
(a) Why she talked so much about black children.
(b) Why she wanted to teach black children.
(c) Why she was white.
(d) Why she was Jewish.

2. Who was Mrs. Paley with in the preface?
(a) Her students.
(b) Her husband.
(c) A student teacher.
(d) A collegue.

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

4. How did Mrs. Paley respond to the boy's behavior in Chapter 4?
(a) Praised it.
(b) Ignored it.
(c) Sent him to the office.
(d) Yelled at him.

5. How did Mrs. Paley feel about the young boy's actions in her class in Chapter 4?
(a) Smarter.
(b) Ugly.
(c) Belittled.
(d) Attacked.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mrs. Paley note about her class after she received advice in Chapter 2?

2. Who made Mrs. Paley dislike her job at one point?

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

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

5. Who did Mrs. Paley call in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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