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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ayers say lesson plans typically begin with?
(a) With lesson objectives.
(b) With state and national standards.
(c) With behavioral objectives.
(d) With an anticipatory set.

2. According to Ayers, what tells us what to do?
(a) Our principals.
(b) Our parents.
(c) Our teachers.
(d) Our environments.

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

4. According to Ayers, what is built when there is an engaged and active citizenry?
(a) Better legislation.
(b) A republic.
(c) Parental support.
(d) A strong democracy.

5. According to Ayers, what is in charge at the schools that limited individuality?
(a) The building
(b) The schedule.
(c) The principal.
(d) The teacher.

6. What occupation does Ayers say teachers must "take on" to understand children?
(a) Police Officer.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Detective.
(d) Pychologist.

7. Who believed that "Education was the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume the responsibility for it"?
(a) William Ayers.
(b) Nel Noddings.
(c) Hannah Arendt.
(d) Maxine Greene.

8. What does Ayers identify as a time of invention, discovery, and surprise?
(a) School.
(b) Childhood.
(c) Daycare.
(d) Adulthood.

9. In Ayers classroom, what dominated the window sills and counter tops?
(a) Teacher's artwork.
(b) Classroom rules.
(c) Student projects.
(d) Photos of students.

10. What did Ayers's students do preschool through high school that was considered a class job or responsibility?
(a) Students drew.
(b) Students napped.
(c) Students cooked.
(d) Students read.

11. How old was Chesa when Ayers began caring for him?
(a) 10 years old.
(b) 14 months old.
(c) 14 years old.
(d) 4 years old.

12. Who argued that "teachers can be aided in the difficult matter of moral choice if they can adopt an ethic of caring"?
(a) Nel Noddings.
(b) William Ayers.
(c) Maxine Greene.
(d) Hannah Arendt.

13. According to Ayers, what were many of Ayers's students when he began teaching?
(a) At Risk.
(b) Culturally deprived.
(c) Barbarians.
(d) Savages.

14. What percentage of African American boys does Ayers say will spend some time in prison?
(a) 10% will spend some time in prison.
(b) 66% will spend some time in prison.
(c) 33% will spend some time in prison.
(d) 25% will spend some time in prison.

15. What model is curriculum built on based on Ayers's research?
(a) The deficit model.
(b) The student-centered model.
(c) The teacher-centered model.
(d) The surplus model.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 2, "Seeing the Student," how did a staff review session end?

2. Who was the teaching assistant that pitched baseballs to a student everyday?

3. When Ayers took children to the airport concourse, what did they do?

4. How did Ayers stay alive as a teacher?

5. In which publication did Martha Gellhorn write a piece about loving our children?

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