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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 Sylvia need to learn?
(a) Respect.
(b) Restraint.
(c) Self control.
(d) Love.

2. What did Mrs. Paley do to Sylvia for hitting another student?
(a) Expelled her.
(b) Called her parents.
(c) Punished her.
(d) Put her in dentention.

3. What did this clothing issue create for Mrs. Paley?
(a) Stress.
(b) A difficult situation.
(c) Animosity with the boy's parents.
(d) Animosity with the boy.

4. Where was the first time this child ever spoke to Mrs. Paley?
(a) AIn the courtyard.
(b) Boland Pond.
(c) Recess.
(d) The cafeteria.

5. Whose conversation did Mrs. Paley overhear in Chapter 21?
(a) No one's.
(b) A couple of white girls.
(c) A couple of black girls.
(d) A couple of boys.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the students Mrs. Paley overheard hesitant to do?

2. What did Mrs. Paley observe in her class in Chapter 17?

3. What did the child who had difficulties in Chapter 11 agree to do by Chapter 12?

4. Who was excluded in Chapter 17?

5. What was Ayana's personality?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss what Claire struggled with and why.

2. What was explained to Rena about races in family?

3. What did the class do together in Chapter 22?

4. Describe Ayana.

5. Describe what developed at the end of Chapter 13 in Mrs. Paley's classroom.

6. How did the other girls treat Sylvia when they played games?

7. Describe Sylvia.

8. Describe what Joyce claimed to be.

9. What did Mrs. Paley arrange for Claire?

10. How did Kenny behave in class compared to out of class?

(see the answer keys)

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