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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 learn was the best way to deal with racial issues in her classroom?
(a) Deceit.
(b) Courageously.
(c) Integrity.
(d) Honesty.

2. What did Mrs. Paley try after the incident with the young boy in Chapter 4?
(a) An old technique.
(b) Playtime.
(c) A new technique.
(d) Nothing.

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

4. What was interesting about the other teacher's assumptions about Fred's problems?
(a) They assumed he was retarded, like every other black student.
(b) They never assumed that about white children with the same problems.
(c) They were being really kind.
(d) They were being really mean.

5. Who became good friends in Mrs. Paley's class in Chapter 10?
(a) A white boy and a black boy.
(b) A white boy and a black girl.
(c) A white girl and black boy.
(d) A white girl and a black girl.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who did Mrs. Paley want to teach?

3. What does ignoring racial differences do in the classroom according to Mrs. Paley?

4. Who used the derogatory words about blacks that Mrs. Paley was unsure how to handle?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Mrs. Paley feel about Janet?

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

3. Compare and contrast Chicago schools to the southern schools Mrs. Paley taught in.

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

5. Discuss what Mrs. Paley began to do in Chapter 5.

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

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

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

9. Describe what Mrs. Paley struggled with that prompted her to write "White Teacher."

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

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