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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What age did Mrs. Paley teach?
(a) First.
(b) Fourth.
(c) Kindergarten.
(d) Second.

2. What are people's thoughts based on in relationship to blacks according to the first few chapters of "White Teacher"?
(a) Facts.
(b) Love.
(c) A documentary.
(d) Stereotypes.

3. What was interesting about the other teacher's assumptions about Fred's problems?
(a) They were being really mean.
(b) They were being really kind.
(c) They never assumed that about white children with the same problems.
(d) They assumed he was retarded, like every other black student.

4. How did Mrs. Paley feel about the young boy's actions in her class in Chapter 4?
(a) Attacked.
(b) Smarter.
(c) Belittled.
(d) Ugly.

5. Where dis Mrs. Paley eventually place the disruptive boy in Chapter 4?
(a) Time out corner.
(b) The hallway.
(c) Time out chair.
(d) By the trashcan.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where were Mrs. Paley's first teaching jobs located?

3. Who did Mrs. Paley want to explain her classroom's goings on to?

4. Who was Mrs. Paley with in the preface?

5. What was wrong with Fred?

(see the answer key)

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