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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Mrs. Paley teach?
(a) Italy.
(b) A mixed race school.
(c) Germany.
(d) Chicago.

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

3. What did the person who came to talk to Rena tell her in Chapter 1?
(a) Race is part of you, not who you are.
(b) To appreciate everyone's beauty.
(c) To love herself.
(d) Love makes a family, not a race.

4. What did the people Mrs. Paley asked advice for in Chapter 2 advise her to do?
(a) Praise race in the classroom.
(b) Ignore race in the classroom.
(c) Take a vacation.
(d) Focus on the behvaior.

5. What did the class act out together?
(a) Cat in the Hat.
(b) A Tale of Two Cities.
(c) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
(d) The Three Billy Goats Gruff.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Mrs. Paley's student teacher?

2. How did the student teacher explain to the student what was happening when one student stopped being his or her friend?

3. How did Mrs. Paley react to the exclusion in Chapter 17?

4. In the preface, what was Mrs. Paley doing?

5. What did the person Mrs. Paley was with ask her in the preface?

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