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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Creating an Environment for Learning.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of music was played at the detention center during work time?
(a) Rap music.
(b) Country music.
(c) Classical music.
(d) Rock music.

2. Ayers claims that what type of school tends be mechanistic and managerial, hierarchical, and bureaucratic?
(a) Small schools.
(b) Ideal schools.
(c) Student-centered schools.
(d) Big schools.

3. Which country's children did Gellhorn write about?
(a) Vietnam.
(b) United States.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Canada.

4. According to Ayers, what is the goal when kids become the "crowd or herd"?
(a) Create the "factory" student.
(b) To manage the mob.
(c) Teach great lessons.
(d) Teach students one on one.

5. When To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher was written, what percentage of American children awoke everyday in poverty?
(a) 25% of American children awoke everyday in poverty.
(b) 50% of American children awoke everyday in poverty.
(c) 22% of American children awoke everyday in poverty.
(d) 33% of American children awoke everyday in poverty.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ayers, what is in charge at the schools that limited individuality?

2. What did Ayers's space have "lots and lots" of?

3. In the year 2000, how many children did not have health insurance?

4. Who believed that "young children's thinking is concrete and immediate compared to the thinking of older children"?

5. What percentage of African American boys does Ayers say will spend some time in prison?

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