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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Mrs. Paley recall from her own schooling?
(a) Being excluded.
(b) Being the only Jewish girl.
(c) Being ugly.
(d) Being the only girl.

2. What did the young boy in Mrs. Paley's class do to be scolded in Chapter 4?
(a) A crayon.
(b) Foul language.
(c) The drawing easel.
(d) Permanent marker on the wall.

3. What was Carol embarrassed of?
(a) Her clothes.
(b) Her voice.
(c) Her Taiwanese speaking grandmother.
(d) Her backpack.

4. Who did Mrs. Paley want to explain her classroom's goings on to?
(a) The principle.
(b) Herself.
(c) No one.
(d) The student teacher.

5. Where did Mrs. Paley teach?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Germany.
(c) A mixed race school.
(d) Italy.

6. What experiences did Mrs. Paley draw from her own life to relate to her job's issues?
(a) Being ugly.
(b) Being a Jewish child.
(c) Being an only child.
(d) Being a racist.

7. What did Mrs. Paley have her students share in relation to their ethnic background in Chapter 7?
(a) Music and clothes.
(b) Weather and music.
(c) Pictures and different languages.
(d) Clothes and weather.

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

9. What did Mrs. Paley note she tended to have higher expectations for?
(a) Those with less economics.
(b) Those that are white.
(c) Those with higher economic background.
(d) Those that are black.

10. What did Mrs. Paley question about her pleasure of the two students' friendship in Chapter 7?
(a) Why she cared about this friendship.
(b) Mary Anne's intelligence.
(c) Arlene's intelligence.
(d) Who was a better student.

11. Where were Mrs. Paley's first teaching jobs located?
(a) The north.
(b) The West coast.
(c) The East coast.
(d) The south.

12. How old was Mrs. Paley's student teacher?
(a) 21.
(b) 45.
(c) 40.
(d) 28.

13. What did Mrs. Paley continue to believe was needed in the classroom?
(a) Heat.
(b) Classrooms with mixed races.
(c) Running water.
(d) AC.

14. Who used the derogatory words about blacks that Mrs. Paley was unsure how to handle?
(a) Her black student teacher.
(b) Black boys.
(c) Her black maid.
(d) Black children.

15. What did Mrs. Paley urge the school district to do in Chapter 3?
(a) To offer learning alternatives.
(b) To desegregate the schools.
(c) To segregate the schools.
(d) To bus black children into their schools.

Short Answer Questions

1. What age did Mrs. Paley teach?

2. What did the people Mrs. Paley asked advice for in Chapter 2 advise her to do?

3. Who did Mrs. Paley want to teach?

4. Who disrupted the good friends in Chapter 10?

5. What did Mrs. Paley learn was the best way to deal with racial issues in her classroom?

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