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

2. How did Mrs. Paley feel about her place in society by the end of Chapter 2?
(a) Happy that her race was getting recognition in society.
(b) Happy with her place in society.
(c) Unhappy with her lack of action.
(d) Unhappy with her job.

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

4. Where did Mrs. Paley never have trouble chastising her student about using derogatory names?
(a) The north.
(b) Chicago.
(c) The west.
(d) The south.

5. In Chapter 4, what happened the first time Mrs. Paley tried disciplining the disruptive boy?
(a) She had to call his parents.
(b) She had to slap him.
(c) She had to hold him down.
(d) She had to sit on him.

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

7. What did Mrs. Paley try after the incident with the young boy in Chapter 4?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A new technique.
(c) An old technique.
(d) Playtime.

8. What was the result of the two boys who became friends although didn't remain friends?
(a) They ended up hating eachother.
(b) They broke the segregation that had always existed before.
(c) They expanded their friendship to include all races.
(d) They learned about another race in that time.

9. What was wrong with Fred?
(a) He was beaten at home.
(b) He was mentality disabled.
(c) He was mean and ugly.
(d) He had infantile speech.

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

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

12. What happened after Mrs. Paley's limited the young boy in Chapter 5?
(a) He stopped using foul lanuage.
(b) He started making good grades.
(c) He started get along with the class.
(d) He started answering quetsions.

13. What did Mrs. Paley continue to believe was needed in the classroom?
(a) AC.
(b) Running water.
(c) Classrooms with mixed races.
(d) Heat.

14. Who would often speak in ethnic speech in Chapter 7?
(a) Two black boys.
(b) Two black girls of lower social class.
(c) Two black girls of equal social class
(d) Two white girls mocking the blacks.

15. What does ignoring racial differences do in the classroom according to Mrs. Paley?
(a) Solves problems.
(b) Alleviates problems.
(c) Makes everyone equal.
(d) Creates more problems.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mrs. Paley believe helped the disruptive young boy?

2. What did Mrs. Paley invite parents to send with their children to class in Chapter 7?

3. Who was Mrs. Paley with in the preface?

4. Who did Mrs. Paley have a conversation with at the end of Chapter 3?

5. What did Mrs. Paley begin doing in her classroom after being asked a surprising question in the preface?

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