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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 limit the disruptive boy to from doing in Chapter 5?
(a) The number of times he could go to the bathroom.
(b) The number of times he could use foul language.
(c) The number of times he could answer a question.
(d) The number of times he could speak.

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

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

4. Who did Mrs. Paley want to explain her classroom's goings on to?
(a) No one.
(b) Herself.
(c) The principle.
(d) The student teacher.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the two students have in common aside from their mothers becoming doctors?

2. What happened at the end of Chapter 1?

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

4. What kind of club did Barbara organize?

5. Who disrupted the good friends in Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How did Mrs. Paley feel about Janet?

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

8. Describe Janet Albright.

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

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

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