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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Life in a Maori School, 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a "tangi"?
(a) A traditional Maori home.
(b) A Maori dance.
(c) A traditional Maori tunic.
(d) A Maori funeral.

2. According to Erich Fromm, what is the outcome of the unlived life?
(a) Depression.
(b) Destructiveness.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Substance abuse.

3. At what time did the students turn to the new words during the "intake period"?
(a) 10:30 a.m.
(b) 11:30 a.m.
(c) 10 a.m.
(d) 11 a.m.

4. Which student wrote about his father hitting his mother in her face in "Compositions"?
(a) Rongo.
(b) Matawhero.
(c) Riti.
(d) Makere.

5. What did the students do with the new words put up on the blackboard each morning?
(a) They practiced spelling them.
(b) They read them together out loud.
(c) They added them to their stories.
(d) They made sentences together with them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color shirt did Ashton-Warner wear while facing bad situations?

2. What composer was NOT mentioned among the list Ashton-Warner used in her classroom?

3. How were the chairs arranged for the reading and exchange period?

4. What did the junior assistant or a senior pupil sometimes do with the younger students during shared reading?

5. What did Brian mean by the term he used to describe the bus in his story?

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