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

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

3. How did Mrs. Paley feel about her place in society by the end of Chapter 2?

4. Where did Mrs. Paley's student teacher insist she was needed at?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Discuss how Mrs. Paley punished poor behavior in Chapter 2.

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

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

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

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

Essay Topic 3

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.

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