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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 did the child play the game with the visitor?

2. What did the child in Chapter 12 paint in?

3. Who was the child forbidden to play with in Chapter 11?

4. Who did Mrs. Paley call in Chapter 14?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Sylvia.

2. Describe Claire Mireau.

3. Describe what developed at the end of Chapter 13 in Mrs. Paley's classroom.

4. Describe Ayana.

5. What was another result of the t shirt situation?

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

7. Discuss what Claire struggled with and why.

8. What was Rena obsessed with?

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

10. Describe the announcement made by the little girls at the end of class in Chapter 24.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast why Janet felt she need to teach in an all black school and Mrs. Paley's feeling that she needed to be in an interracial school.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss what Felice's father wanted Mrs. Paley to do and why he believed this would solve his daughter's nightmares. How did Mrs. Paley react to this request made by Felice's father?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the boy's offensive t-shirt and how it showed that the children were introducing the derogatory terms. How did the children introducing the terms make it difficult for Mrs. Paley?

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