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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 often struggle with when she was teaching?
(a) How to maintain control of the classroom.
(b) How to teach spelling.
(c) How to discipline.
(d) How to deal with racial differences.

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

3. Who did Mrs. Paley want to teach?
(a) Black children.
(b) White children.
(c) European children.
(d) Her own children.

4. 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) Pictures and different languages.
(d) Clothes and weather.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the exploration of ethnicity do for Mrs. Paley's students?

2. What did Mrs. Paley's action of ignoring racial differences do according to the conversation with the second person in Chapter 3?

3. What was Carol embarrassed of?

4. What did Mrs. Paley begin doing in her classroom after being asked a surprising question in the preface?

5. How did Mrs. Paley respond to the boy's behavior in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Janet Albright.

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

3. Describe Fred and what his problems were.

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

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

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

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

8. Describe what the black parent in Chapter 3 said about ignoring racial differences.

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

10. How did Mrs. Paley feel about Janet?

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