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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, The Mystery of Teaching.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who asked how race relations were going in Chicago?
(a) Irene.
(b) Elaine.
(c) Jose.
(d) Duke.

2. Which Greek God did Ayers compare outstanding teachers to?
(a) Achilles.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Odysseus.
(d) Homer.

3. What did Ayers say "cramped choices and strangled life chances for the children of the poor"?
(a) Schools.
(b) Parents.
(c) Inequalities.
(d) Teachers.

4. Who argued that good teachers incorporated all kinds of instructional strategies and are vigilant for "what works"?
(a) June Jordan.
(b) Gilbert Ryle.
(c) Lisa Delpit.
(d) John Holt.

5. In Chapter 7, "Mystery of Teaching," who told a remarkable story of learning to read as a subversive activity?
(a) Addams.
(b) Dewey.
(c) Douglass.
(d) Rilke.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who founded the Workshop Center at City College in New York?

2. What is a sophisticated and complex cognitive process as suggested in Chapter 5, "Liberating the Curriculum"?

3. Which score from a sample group was the norm as suggested by Ayers?

4. What do kids see that school is linked by more than anything else?

5. What was the average annual cost to house an inmate in 1999?

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