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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Beginning Again, The Current Challenge to Teach.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Whose house does Ayers describe as "dominated by the kitchen"?
(a) Malcolm and Sue's house.
(b) Harriet and Efrem's house.
(c) Coretta's house.
(d) BJ's house.
2. According to Chapter 8, "Beginning Again, The Current Challenge to Teach," how many learning points should classrooms have?
(a) Two learning points.
(b) One learning points.
(c) Multiple learning points.
(d) No learning points.
3. Ayers stated that ________________________ is more dogmatic and insistent than any religion or political ideology.
(a) Choosing.
(b) Learning.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Common sense.
4. What do educators become when "talk turned to skills" according to Ayers?
(a) Simple-minded.
(b) Supportive.
(c) Open-minded.
(d) Close-minded.
5. How does Ayers feel about standardized tests?
(a) Ayers enjoys taking standardized tests.
(b) Ayers has been a life-long critic of standardized testing.
(c) Ayers believes standardized tests measure students accurately.
(d) Ayers supports the use of standardized tests.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Zayd want to get like Crazy Horse?
2. What, as suggested by Ayers, is a matter of solidarity between subjects and human beings?
3. Ayers believes that what sets up schools as institutional forms for re-creation of specific values and norms, dispositions, and assumptions?
4. What do kids see that school is linked by more than anything else?
5. In Chapter 7, "The Mystery of Teaching," who suggested to "go into yourself"?
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