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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What idea did Mrs. Paley quickly dismiss?
(a) That Claire was racist.
(b) That Claire had a learning disablity.
(c) That Claire hated her.
(d) That she was a racist.

2. What did Joyce claim to be in Chapter 17?
(a) To be mixed.
(b) To be gay.
(c) To be white.
(d) To be lonely.

3. Who did Mrs. Paley have a conversation with in Chapter 19?
(a) Felice's father.
(b) Her own mom.
(c) No one.
(d) Felice's mother.

4. What did Mrs. Paley wonder about the situation in Chapter 15?
(a) If race has more to do with the concern of the child's nightmares.
(b) How to end the nightmares.
(c) If the nightmares actually exist.
(d) If she is the cause of the nightmares.

5. What did the visitor ask the child to do in Chapter 12?
(a) Go to recess.
(b) Show him how to draw.
(c) Sing for him.
(d) Play a game of take ball.

6. Who did Mrs. Paley call in Chapter 14?
(a) Her mom.
(b) Her friend.
(c) The boy's parents.
(d) The principal.

7. What did the clothing situation add to in Chapter 14?
(a) Segregation in the classroom.
(b) Parent teacher conferences.
(c) Another student called another girl a degrogatory name.
(d) Stress.

8. How did Mrs. Paley react to the exclusion in Chapter 17?
(a) Worried.
(b) Proud.
(c) Concerned.
(d) Happy.

9. Who made it easier for Mrs. Paley to say black in the classroom?
(a) The parents.
(b) The children.
(c) Her mom.
(d) The principal.

10. What were the students Mrs. Paley overheard hesitant to do?
(a) Play in the doll corner.
(b) Play at recess.
(c) Comment about the white race.
(d) Go outside.

11. How did Kenny gain confidence?
(a) Making his own dinner.
(b) Making his own costume.
(c) Drawing his own picture.
(d) Writing his own poem.

12. When did Mrs. Paley first see Kenny?
(a) During the summer.
(b) At school.
(c) In the spring.
(d) At the movies.

13. How did Kenny appear to be when Mrs. Paley first met him?
(a) Sad.
(b) Strong.
(c) Weak.
(d) Confident.

14. Who caused another student nightmares in the class?
(a) Sylvia.
(b) Ayana.
(c) Claire.
(d) Mrs. Paley.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose favorite story did the class act out together?

2. What did Mrs. Paley observe in her class in Chapter 17?

3. Why was the second girl surprised in Chapter 24?

4. What did the girl announce in Chapter 24?

5. What was monopolized that year in Chapter 17?

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