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

2. 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 slap him.
(c) She had to sit on him.
(d) She had to hold him down.

3. Where were Mrs. Paley's first teaching jobs located?
(a) The East coast.
(b) The north.
(c) The south.
(d) The West coast.

4. What did the people Mrs. Paley asked advice for in Chapter 2 advise her to do?
(a) Ignore race in the classroom.
(b) Praise race in the classroom.
(c) Focus on the behvaior.
(d) Take a vacation.

5. What did Mrs. Paley continue to believe was needed in the classroom?
(a) Running water.
(b) AC.
(c) Classrooms with mixed races.
(d) Heat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Mrs. Paley think in Chapter 1 she would like to teach?

2. What did Mrs. Paley have her students share in relation to their ethnic background in Chapter 7?

3. What age did Mrs. Paley teach?

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

5. What did Mrs. Paley often struggle with when she was teaching?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Mrs. Paley feel about Janet?

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

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

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

5. What did Mrs. Paley question about her pleasure from the formed friendships in Chapter 7?

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

7. Describe Barbara.

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

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

10. Describe Fred and what his problems were.

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