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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How old was Peter, the chairman of the school board?
(a) 70.
(b) 65.
(c) 60.
(d) 58.
2. What student did Ashton-Warner think would have advanced farther had he been able to use "white" readers?
(a) Harry.
(b) John.
(c) Gordon.
(d) Mark.
3. What position did Matawhero's grandfather hold?
(a) Chariman of the Board of Selectmen.
(b) Chairman of the School Advisory Committee.
(c) Chairman of the Board of Supervisors.
(d) Chairman of the School Committee.
4. What did her former students do when Ashton-Warner arrived to visit their new classroom?
(a) They sat still in their chairs.
(b) They ran helter-skelter toward her.
(c) They rose together to greet her.
(d) They gathered in a circle around her.
5. What did Mere and June rub on their faces?
(a) Red paint.
(b) Yellow crayon.
(c) Red chalk.
(d) Blue powder.
Short Answer Questions
1. What event was being celebrated for Kahu at the Assembly Hall?
2. What was the weather like the day Ashton-Warner met with Tremaine?
3. How long ago had the Maoris ancestors arrived in New Zealand from Polynesia?
4. Which student did Ashton-Warner say was one of her brightest and most sensitive, despite the poor handwriting?
5. What was one of the items "missing" from the new classroom?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Ashton-Warner criticize herself for the way she handled Matawhero's defiance after he hit Gordon?
2. What role did discipline play in Ashton-Warner's classroom?
3. How did sentence length differ between whites and Maoris?
4. How did the behavior of the children differ in the new classrooms compared to when Ashton-Warner taught at the school?
5. What revelation did Ashton-Warner have in "Post-Holiday Notes" about using Maori readers with both Maori and white students?
6. Why was Ashton-Warner surprised at the appearance of the new classrooms when she visited?
7. To what did Ashton-Warner attribute the lack of cohesiveness in some of her later students' stories?
8. What are the two worst enemies of teaching?
9. Why did Ashton-Warner write at the end of "Holidays" that she was no longer lonely?
10. What were the vocabulary words like in the new classroom?
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