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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 does ignoring racial differences do in the classroom according to Mrs. Paley?

2. What did Mrs. Paley begin doing in her classroom after being asked a surprising question in the preface?

3. What did Mrs. Paley note about her class after she received advice in Chapter 2?

4. How did Mrs. Paley feel about her new job in Chapter 3?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Mrs. Paley's friend suggest about Mrs. Paley's interest in her students?

2. Describe the child in Chapter 4 who used foul language and his behavior.

3. Discuss how Mrs. Paley punished poor behavior in Chapter 2.

4. What did Mrs. Paley question about her pleasure from the formed friendships in Chapter 7?

5. Discuss what Steven almost forced Mrs. Paley to do.

6. Describe what Mrs. Paley struggled with that prompted her to write "White Teacher."

7. What did Arlene and Mary Ann discover in Chapter 7?

8. Describe Mrs. Paley's first black student.

9. Describe Barbara.

10. What did Mrs. Paley want to achieve in her classroom from the protests?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze Rena's obsession with black people and how she resolved her obsession.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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