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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 5, who did Mrs. Paley begin to offer compliments to?
(a) Racial differences.
(b) The white children.
(c) The black children.
(d) No one.

2. 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 was white.
(c) Why she wanted to teach black children.
(d) Why she was Jewish.

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

4. What did Mrs. Paley's actions encourage for her students to do in Chapter 5?
(a) To play nice.
(b) To explore their artistic side.
(c) To discuss racial issues.
(d) To see each other as equal.

5. What do the first few chapters of "White Teacher" introduce?
(a) Theme of Civil Rights.
(b) Theme of equality.
(c) Theme of racial difference.
(d) Theme of equal rights.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Mrs. Paley feel about her place in society by the end of Chapter 2?

2. How did Mrs. Paley respond to the boy's behavior in Chapter 4?

3. What did Mrs. Paley begin doing in her classroom in Chapter 5?

4. What age did Mrs. Paley teach?

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

(see the answer key)

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