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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 did Mrs. Paley try after the incident with the young boy in Chapter 4?
(a) A new technique.
(b) Playtime.
(c) Nothing.
(d) An old technique.

2. What was wrong with Fred?
(a) He had infantile speech.
(b) He was mean and ugly.
(c) He was mentality disabled.
(d) He was beaten at home.

3. What did Mrs. Paley begin doing in her classroom after being asked a surprising question in the preface?
(a) Took a shower in the morning.
(b) Talked to herself.
(c) Wrote in a journal.
(d) Kept notes about her classroom.

4. What did Mrs. Paley participate in in Chapter 3?
(a) A cake walk.
(b) A walk-a-thon.
(c) Civil rights protests.
(d) Advocating interracial schooling.

5. What did Mrs. Paley struggle with at the beginning of "White Teacher"?
(a) How to deal with issues of race without creating a bigger problem.
(b) How to teach blacks.
(c) Discipline.
(d) How to mix blacks with whites in the classroom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the boy in Mrs. Paley's class in Chapter 4?

2. In Chapter 4, what happened the first time Mrs. Paley tried disciplining the disruptive boy?

3. What are people's thoughts based on in relationship to blacks according to the first few chapters of "White Teacher"?

4. What did Mrs. Paley notice about black children playing with other black children in the first few chapters?

5. Who did Mrs. Paley get to recognize the changes in the young boy from Chapter 5?

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