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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Mrs. Paley urge the school district to do in Chapter 3?
(a) To segregate the schools.
(b) To bus black children into their schools.
(c) To offer learning alternatives.
(d) To desegregate the schools.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mrs. Paley learn was the best way to deal with racial issues in her classroom?

2. What was Mrs. Paley's plan to try after the incident in Chapter 4 with the young boy?

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

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

5. Who did Mrs. Paley go to for advice in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Janet Albright explain to the hurt child about friendship?

2. Describe Janet Albright.

3. Describe the child in Chapter 4 who used foul language and his behavior.

4. Explain why Mrs. Paley decided to write "White Teacher."

5. Describe Barbara.

6. What did Mrs. Paley's friend suggest about Mrs. Paley's interest in her students?

7. How did Mrs. Paley feel about Janet?

8. Discuss what Mrs. Paley's friend asked her in the preface.

9. Discuss what Steven almost forced Mrs. Paley to do.

10. Describe what made Mrs. Paley unsure of herself in her classroom in Chapter 6.

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