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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who was the smartest girl in the class in Chapter 7?
(a) Arlene.
(b) Claire.
(c) Mary Anne.
(d) Sylvia.
2. What did Mrs. Paley continue to believe was needed in the classroom?
(a) Classrooms with mixed races.
(b) Running water.
(c) Heat.
(d) AC.
3. What did Mrs. Paley invite parents to send with their children to class in Chapter 7?
(a) Games.
(b) Food.
(c) Clothing to explore their culture.
(d) Music to explore their culture.
4. What was wrong with Fred?
(a) He was mentality disabled.
(b) He was mean and ugly.
(c) He had infantile speech.
(d) He was beaten at home.
5. Where did Mrs. Paley teach?
(a) A mixed race school.
(b) Germany.
(c) Italy.
(d) Chicago.
6. Who came to work with Mrs. Paley in Chapter 9?
(a) Janet Albright.
(b) Janey Albritton.
(c) Janice Alright.
(d) JJ.
7. What did Mrs. Paley limit the disruptive boy to from doing in Chapter 5?
(a) The number of times he could answer a question.
(b) The number of times he could use foul language.
(c) The number of times he could speak.
(d) The number of times he could go to the bathroom.
8. Where did Mrs. Paley never have trouble chastising her student about using derogatory names?
(a) The west.
(b) Chicago.
(c) The north.
(d) The south.
9. In Chapter 4, what happened the first time Mrs. Paley tried disciplining the disruptive boy?
(a) She had to sit on him.
(b) She had to hold him down.
(c) She had to call his parents.
(d) She had to slap him.
10. What did Mrs. Paley's action of ignoring racial differences do according to the conversation with the second person in Chapter 3?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Robbed her of what made her special.
(c) Advocated racism.
(d) Created racism.
11. What did Mrs. Paley notice about black children playing with other black children in the first few chapters?
(a) Refusal to play with a white child.
(b) They saw white's were better.
(c) They clung to each other.
(d) They thought blacks were inadequate.
12. How did Mrs. Paley feel about her place in society by the end of Chapter 2?
(a) Happy with her place in society.
(b) Happy that her race was getting recognition in society.
(c) Unhappy with her lack of action.
(d) Unhappy with her job.
13. Where were Mrs. Paley's first teaching jobs located?
(a) The West coast.
(b) The south.
(c) The north.
(d) The East coast.
14. What experiences did Mrs. Paley draw from her own life to relate to her job's issues?
(a) Being ugly.
(b) Being a Jewish child.
(c) Being an only child.
(d) Being a racist.
15. What did Mrs. Paley begin doing in her classroom in Chapter 5?
(a) Mentioning race similarities.
(b) Mentioning race differences.
(c) Ignoring racial issues.
(d) Discussed racial issues.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Mrs. Paley recall from her own schooling?
2. What did Mrs. Paley often struggle with when she was teaching?
3. What did the person Mrs. Paley was with ask her in the preface?
4. What did Mrs. Paley realize ethnic speech had little to do with?
5. What did Mrs. Paley urge her student teacher to do?
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