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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who disrupted the good friends in Chapter 10?

3. Who was Mrs. Paley with in the preface?

4. Who did Mrs. Paley want to teach?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Discuss how Mrs. Paley punished poor behavior in Chapter 2.

8. Explain why Mrs. Paley decided to write "White Teacher."

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Mrs. Paley's perception of the apparent and natural isolation of the black and white students. How did this segregation support or refute the work and progress Mrs. Paley had made up until that point?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how the class activity of acting out The Three Billy Goat's Gruff united them and brought them together like a family.

Essay Topic 3

Explain how the black clique in Chapter 13 is an example of the book's theme of exclusion of whites in a world that excludes blacks.

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