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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Mrs. Paley note she tended to have higher expectations for?
(a) Those with less economics.
(b) Those with higher economic background.
(c) Those that are black.
(d) Those that are white.

2. Who did Mrs. Paley want to explain her classroom's goings on to?
(a) No one.
(b) The principle.
(c) The student teacher.
(d) Herself.

3. Where did Mrs. Paley's student teacher insist she was needed at?
(a) A special school.
(b) An all black school.
(c) An all white school.
(d) A mixed school.

4. What happened at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) The school day ended.
(b) The school day started.
(c) With recess.
(d) A trust grew between Mrs. Paley and Alma.

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

6. What did Mrs. Paley believe helped the disruptive young boy?
(a) Love.
(b) Being scolded.
(c) Attention.
(d) Discipline techniques.

7. What did Mrs. Paley realize ethnic speech had little to do with?
(a) Racial appreciations.
(b) Intelligence of the speaker.
(c) Racial inequalities.
(d) Knowledge of the speaker.

8. Who made Mrs. Paley dislike her job at one point?
(a) A young white girl.
(b) A parent of a white boy.
(c) A child like Steven.
(d) A child not like Steven.

9. Who did Mrs. Paley go to for advice in Chapter 2?
(a) Her colleagues.
(b) Her boss.
(c) Her mom.
(d) Her husband.

10. Who was the smartest girl in the class in Chapter 7?
(a) Mary Anne.
(b) Sylvia.
(c) Claire.
(d) Arlene.

11. Who came to work with Mrs. Paley in Chapter 9?
(a) Janice Alright.
(b) JJ.
(c) Janet Albright.
(d) Janey Albritton.

12. What kind of club did Barbara organize?
(a) A Catholic one.
(b) A White one.
(c) A Jewish one.
(d) A Black one.

13. What did Mrs. Paley question about her pleasure of the two students' friendship in Chapter 7?
(a) Who was a better student.
(b) Mary Anne's intelligence.
(c) Why she cared about this friendship.
(d) Arlene's intelligence.

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

15. What does Mrs. Paley highlight through the experiences she recalls in "White Teacher"?
(a) Stereotypes.
(b) The all white classroom with the integrated one.
(c) The interracial activity of children.
(d) Racial equality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mrs. Paley take a closer look at in relationship to ethnic speech?

2. Who did Mrs. Paley first have a conversation with in Chapter 3 about her new job?

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

4. What did Mrs. Paley urge the school district to do in Chapter 3?

5. In Chapter 4, what happened the first time Mrs. Paley tried disciplining the disruptive boy?

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