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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is a set of techniques and directions to be mastered discussed in Chapter 7, "The Mystery of Teaching"?
(a) Teaching.
(b) Acting.
(c) Learning.
(d) Singing.

3. What, as suggested by Ayers, is a matter of solidarity between subjects and human beings?
(a) Learning from experience.
(b) Finding allies.
(c) Linking consciousness to conduct.
(d) Friendship.

4. According to Ayers, what are tests surrounded by?
(a) Rituals.
(b) Extreme colored borders.
(c) Untrue statements.
(d) Stereotyping.

5. What does great teaching demand according to Ayers?
(a) An close-mind.
(b) An openness to standardized testing.
(c) Unique perspectives.
(d) An openness to something new.

6. What is an important window into a child and an essential part of any bridge's blueprint suggested by Ayers?
(a) Family.
(b) Customs.
(c) Culture.
(d) Values.

7. What is a sophisticated and complex cognitive process as suggested in Chapter 5, "Liberating the Curriculum"?
(a) Learning.
(b) Writing.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Reading.

8. What is a great motivator for student ceremonies according to Chapter 4, "Building Bridges"?
(a) The audience.
(b) The teacher.
(c) The other students.
(d) The parents.

9. Who was a veteran teacher that decided each summer to do a sustained study on something the teacher did not understand?
(a) Alice Jefferson.
(b) John Holt.
(c) Joan Cenedella.
(d) Mara Sapon-Shevin.

10. According to Ayers, what are standardized tests?
(a) Good.
(b) A great measurement tool.
(c) Bad.
(d) Excellent.

11. How many inhabitants spoke English as the native tongue in 1988, according to Chapter 4, "Building Bridges"?
(a) 333,746,000
(b) 333,000,000
(c) 3,746,000
(d) 33,746,000

12. According to Ayers, what consumes millions and millions of education dollars?
(a) Textbook companies.
(b) Failing school districts.
(c) Successful school districts.
(d) The testing industry.

13. Who founded the Hull House?
(a) Rilke.
(b) Addams.
(c) Dewey.
(d) Douglass.

14. Ayers points out that __________________________________ is the most powerful predictor of how a child will do on a test.
(a) Past education experiences.
(b) School funding.
(c) Educational background of the parents.
(d) Educational background of the teachers.

15. Who brought the culture of the Sioux people to life for Zayd?
(a) Mari Sandoz.
(b) Mara Sapon-Sevin.
(c) Jose Vega.
(d) Bernardina.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do students often meet the curriculum as suggested by Ayers?

2. What did Ayers consider people were when people, no matter how professional, were given the power to set a standard?

3. Who was one of William Ayers mentors?

4. Ayers stated that ________________________ is more dogmatic and insistent than any religion or political ideology.

5. What allows teachers to see what students are up to while asking them to do the work themselves?

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