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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 observe in her class in Chapter 17?

2. How did the child play the game with the visitor?

3. What did Mrs. Paley do to Sylvia for hitting another student?

4. Who did Mrs. Paley observe in her class in Chapter 17?

5. Where was the first time this child ever spoke to Mrs. Paley?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Mrs. Paley arrange for Claire?

2. Discuss what Claire was a victim of.

3. Describe what Joyce claimed to be.

4. Describe Ayana.

5. Describe what developed at the end of Chapter 13 in Mrs. Paley's classroom.

6. Describe the announcement made by the little girls at the end of class in Chapter 24.

7. Describe the father of the student who had nightmares and what he believed was the cause.

8. What was Rena obsessed with?

9. Describe how the black students use the word "black."

10. How did the other girls treat Sylvia when they played games?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain how Claire finally assimilated into the behaviors and nuances of the classroom.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Discuss how the class activity of acting out The Three Billy Goat's Gruff united them and brought them together like a family.

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