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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 desire in her new job?
(a) An end to racism.
(b) A more accurate reflection of the world outside the classroom.
(c) More money.
(d) Equality.

2. In Chapter 4, what happened the first time Mrs. Paley tried disciplining the disruptive boy?
(a) She had to hold him down.
(b) She had to slap him.
(c) She had to call his parents.
(d) She had to sit on him.

3. Where did Mrs. Paley teach?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Italy.
(c) Germany.
(d) A mixed race school.

4. How did Mrs. Paley feel about her place in society by the end of Chapter 2?
(a) Happy with her place in society.
(b) Unhappy with her job.
(c) Happy that her race was getting recognition in society.
(d) Unhappy with her lack of action.

5. Who would often speak in ethnic speech in Chapter 7?
(a) Two black girls of lower social class.
(b) Two white girls mocking the blacks.
(c) Two black girls of equal social class
(d) Two black boys.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Mrs. Paley's student teacher insist she was needed at?

3. Who did Mrs. Paley have a conversation with at the end of Chapter 3?

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

5. What did Mrs. Paley note she tended to have higher expectations for?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Mrs. Paley feel about Janet?

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

3. Discuss how Mrs. Paley punished poor behavior in Chapter 2.

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

5. Describe Barbara.

6. What did Mrs. Paley want to achieve in her classroom from the protests?

7. What did ignoring racial differences eventually do in Mrs. Paley's classroom?

8. Discuss what Mrs. Paley tried to use from her own experiences in connection to her student's.

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

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

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