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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 happened at the end of Chapter 1?

2. What was wrong with Fred?

3. What did Mrs. Paley urge the school district to do in Chapter 3?

4. What did the exploration of ethnicity do for Mrs. Paley's students?

5. What does ignoring racial differences do in the classroom according to Mrs. Paley?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss what Mrs. Paley concluded about her progress on the research in her classroom. Do you think Mrs. Paley felt satisfied by her work and attempts to dissolve segregation and racism in the youth of the Civil Rights era?

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

Compare the differences in the Chicago school and the schools Mrs. Paley taught in in the south.

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