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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. What did Mrs. Paley urge her student teacher to do?

2. What kind of club did Barbara organize?

3. What did Mrs. Paley realize ethnic speech had little to do with?

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

5. Where did Mrs. Paley teach?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Mrs. Paley's first black student.

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

4. Describe what Mrs. Paley struggled with that prompted her to write "White Teacher."

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

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

7. Describe Fred and what his problems were.

8. Discuss what Mrs. Paley's friend asked her in the preface.

9. How did Mrs. Paley feel about Janet?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss what Claire Mireau suffered from and how that affected when she played with other children.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the boy's offensive t-shirt and how it showed that the children were introducing the derogatory terms. How did the children introducing the terms make it difficult for Mrs. Paley?

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