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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 was the name of Mrs. Paley's first black student?
(a) Alma Fredrickson.
(b) Alma Franklin.
(c) Alma Matter.
(d) Alma Franks.

2. What was wrong with Fred?
(a) He had infantile speech.
(b) He was mean and ugly.
(c) He was mentality disabled.
(d) He was beaten at home.

3. What did Mrs. Paley's action of ignoring racial differences do according to the conversation with the second person in Chapter 3?
(a) Created racism.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Robbed her of what made her special.
(d) Advocated racism.

4. What did Mrs. Paley recall from her own schooling?
(a) Being the only Jewish girl.
(b) Being excluded.
(c) Being ugly.
(d) Being the only girl.

5. What was Carol embarrassed of?
(a) Her clothes.
(b) Her Taiwanese speaking grandmother.
(c) Her backpack.
(d) Her voice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mrs. Paley invite parents to send with their children to class in Chapter 7?

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

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

4. Who made Mrs. Paley dislike her job at one point?

5. How did Mrs. Paley feel about the young boy's actions in her class in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what Janet felt she was meant to do?

2. Describe Fred and what his problems were.

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

4. Describe Barbara.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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