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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 notice about black children playing with other black children in the first few chapters?
(a) They saw white's were better.
(b) They clung to each other.
(c) They thought blacks were inadequate.
(d) Refusal to play with a white child.

2. What did Mrs. Paley have her students share in relation to their ethnic background in Chapter 7?
(a) Music and clothes.
(b) Weather and music.
(c) Clothes and weather.
(d) Pictures and different languages.

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

4. What did Mrs. Paley note about her class after she received advice in Chapter 2?
(a) Comments and behaviors regarding color.
(b) Behavior in blacks and whites.
(c) The behavior of black boys.
(d) The behavior of whites.

5. Who did Mrs. Paley first have a conversation with in Chapter 3 about her new job?
(a) Her mom.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her boss.
(d) Her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Mrs. Paley call in Chapter 1?

2. What did Mrs. Paley try after the incident with the young boy in Chapter 4?

3. How did Mrs. Paley feel about her place in society by the end of Chapter 2?

4. Where did Mrs. Paley never have trouble chastising her student about using derogatory names?

5. Where were Mrs. Paley's first teaching jobs located?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Mrs. Paley's colleagues suggest about Fred?

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

3. What did Mrs. Paley question about her pleasure from the formed friendships in Chapter 7?

4. What did Mrs. Paley limit Steven to and what was the result?

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

6. What did Arlene and Mary Ann discover in Chapter 7?

7. Describe Mrs. Paley's first black student.

8. Discuss what issue Mrs. Paley highlighted in Chapter 3-6?

9. What did Mrs. Paley and her friends advocate?

10. Discuss what Mrs. Paley learned from Janet Albright.

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