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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 visitor curious about in Chapter 12?
(a) The doll corner.
(b) The game take ball.
(c) The drawings on the wall.
(d) Claire.

2. How did Kenny gain confidence?
(a) Making his own dinner.
(b) Drawing his own picture.
(c) Writing his own poem.
(d) Making his own costume.

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

4. What did Mrs. Paley wonder about the situation in Chapter 15?
(a) How to end the nightmares.
(b) If race has more to do with the concern of the child's nightmares.
(c) If the nightmares actually exist.
(d) If she is the cause of the nightmares.

5. What happened to the child that had difficulties in Chapter 11 by Chapter 12?
(a) Claire began speaking to children.
(b) Claire began to sing.
(c) Chaire began to read.
(d) Claire began to have friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who impacted the children's opinions of race?

2. Who monopolized an area of the classroom in Chapter 17?

3. Who did Sylvia play with who would not hesitate to kick her out of their game?

4. What ethnicity were the parents of the child mentioned in Chapter 11?

5. Who came to the classroom in Chapter 15?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the doll corner in Chapter 17.

3. What did Claire finally begin to do in Chapter 12?

4. Describe the father of the student who had nightmares and what he believed was the cause.

5. What did Mrs. Paley arrange for Claire?

6. What were the black girls hesitant to discuss in Chapter 21?

7. What was another result of the t shirt situation?

8. Describe the announcement made by the little girls at the end of class in Chapter 24.

9. Describe what the boy's t shirt caused in Chapter 14.

10. Describe Ayana.

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