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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 did the student teacher explain to the student what was happening when one student stopped being his or her friend?

2. What did the people Mrs. Paley asked advice for in Chapter 2 advise her to do?

3. What age did Mrs. Paley teach?

4. What was Mrs. Paley's plan to try after the incident in Chapter 4 with the young boy?

5. What was the name of Mrs. Paley's first black student?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe Fred and what his problems were.

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain and describe how Mrs. Paley disciplined the disruptive boy in Chapter 5 to rid him from his bad behavior. Detail its success or failure.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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

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