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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's actions encourage for her students to do in Chapter 5?

2. How did Mrs. Paley feel about her new job in Chapter 3?

3. Who would often speak in ethnic speech in Chapter 7?

4. Whose mothers were both becoming doctors in Chapter 7?

5. Who became good friends in Mrs. Paley's class in Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Mrs. Paley feel about Janet?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Describe what the black parent in Chapter 3 said about ignoring racial differences.

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

10. Describe Barbara.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe how Mrs. Paley finally gained her first black student's trust and what that meant for Mrs. Paley as a teacher.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Discuss what Felice's father wanted Mrs. Paley to do and why he believed this would solve his daughter's nightmares. How did Mrs. Paley react to this request made by Felice's father?

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