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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 often struggle with when she was teaching?

2. What did Mrs. Paley desire in her new job?

3. What did the person Mrs. Paley was with ask her in the preface?

4. What did one student suggest about all black people in Chapter 2?

5. Where did Mrs. Paley mostly teach in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What did Mrs. Paley limit Steven to and what was the result?

7. What did Mrs. Paley's friend suggest about Mrs. Paley's interest in her students?

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

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

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

Compare and contrast why Janet felt she need to teach in an all black school and Mrs. Paley's feeling that she needed to be in an interracial school.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze Rena's obsession with black people and how she resolved her obsession.

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