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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 participate in in Chapter 3?
(a) A walk-a-thon.
(b) A cake walk.
(c) Civil rights protests.
(d) Advocating interracial schooling.

2. How old was Mrs. Paley's student teacher?
(a) 21.
(b) 40.
(c) 45.
(d) 28.

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

4. How did Mrs. Paley respond to the boy's behavior in Chapter 4?
(a) Yelled at him.
(b) Praised it.
(c) Ignored it.
(d) Sent him to the office.

5. What did the two students have in common aside from their mothers becoming doctors?
(a) Same religion.
(b) Same favorite color.
(c) Same dad.
(d) Same social background.

6. Where did Mrs. Paley think in Chapter 1 she would like to teach?
(a) Europe.
(b) The ghetto.
(c) Integrated schools.
(d) Private schools.

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

8. How did Mrs. Paley feel about her new job in Chapter 3?
(a) Passionate.
(b) Anxious.
(c) Excited.
(d) Nervous.

9. Who did Mrs. Paley have a conversation with at the end of Chapter 3?
(a) A white parent.
(b) Her boss.
(c) Her mom.
(d) A black parent.

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

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

12. In the preface, what was Mrs. Paley doing?
(a) Sharing a story.
(b) Cooking a meal.
(c) Taking a nap.
(d) Having lunch.

13. What was Carol embarrassed of?
(a) Her backpack.
(b) Her Taiwanese speaking grandmother.
(c) Her voice.
(d) Her clothes.

14. In Chapter 4, what did the young boy in Mrs. Paley's class refuse to do?
(a) To talk to Mrs. Paley.
(b) To eat lunch.
(c) To take a nap.
(d) To go to the bathroom.

15. What did Mrs. Paley urge her student teacher to do?
(a) Teach another age.
(b) Take a job at her school.
(c) Take a job at an all white school.
(d) Go to the Peace Corp.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Mrs. Paley teach?

3. What did Mrs. Paley struggle with at the beginning of "White Teacher"?

4. What did the exploration of ethnicity do for Mrs. Paley's students?

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

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