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

2. What did Mrs. Paley question about her pleasure of the two students' friendship in Chapter 7?

3. Who made Mrs. Paley dislike her job at one point?

4. What did Mrs. Paley limit the disruptive boy to from doing in Chapter 5?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Discuss what Mrs. Paley began to do in Chapter 5.

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

4. What did ignoring racial differences eventually do in Mrs. Paley's classroom?

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

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

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

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

9. Describe Barbara.

10. Describe Fred and what his problems were.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

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

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

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