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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 deep are the differences of the races in the later chapters of "White Teacher"?

2. What did Mrs. Paley wonder about the situation in Chapter 15?

3. Who did Mrs. Paley have a conversation with in Chapter 19?

4. What did the child who had difficulties in Chapter 11 agree to do by Chapter 12?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Sylvia.

2. Describe Anna, the leader of the mutiny from the doll corner.

3. How did Kenny behave in class compared to out of class?

4. What did Claire finally begin to do in Chapter 12?

5. Describe what Joyce claimed to be.

6. How did the class react to Sylvia's absence?

7. Discuss what Claire was a victim of.

8. What was explained to Rena about races in family?

9. Describe Claire Mireau.

10. Describe the doll corner in Chapter 17.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain how the black clique in Chapter 13 is an example of the book's theme of exclusion of whites in a world that excludes blacks.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Mrs. Paley's perception of the apparent and natural isolation of the black and white students. How did this segregation support or refute the work and progress Mrs. Paley had made up until that point?

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