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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. How old was Mrs. Paley's student teacher?

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

3. Where did Mrs. Paley accept a job in Chapter 3?

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

5. What age did Mrs. Paley teach?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss what Mrs. Paley highlighting racial differences did for her classroom, her black students, and herself.

Essay Topic 2

Describe Janet Albright and why she was so successful at soothing the children when they were uncomfortable or in pain.

Essay Topic 3

Explain how Mrs. Paley associated intelligence to a person's economic status and what she realized about her assumptions. How is this a form of prejudice in Mrs. Paley?

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