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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was every picture of that Rena drew?
(a) Her best friend who was black.
(b) Black characters.
(c) Her dog.
(d) Trees.

2. Who monopolized an area of the classroom in Chapter 17?
(a) A group of five black girls.
(b) A group of five white girls.
(c) A group of three black girls.
(d) A group of four black girls.

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

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

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 appreciations.
(d) Racial inequalities.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Mrs. Paley feel about the young boy's actions in her class in Chapter 4?

2. What was Anna always open to?

3. Who did Mrs. Paley want to explain her classroom's goings on to?

4. Where did Mrs. Paley mostly teach in Chapter 1?

5. Where did Mrs. Paley accept a job in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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