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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the Brethren of the Common Life School located?
(a) Athens.
(b) Deventer.
(c) Delft.
(d) Berlin.

2. Gutek's work follows which type of progression?
(a) Orderly.
(b) Reverse.
(c) Sideways.
(d) Chronological.

3. The Thirty Year's War began in which location?
(a) Bohemia.
(b) Bavaria.
(c) Middle East.
(d) Persia.

4. Who is known as the Pansophist Educator?
(a) Dewey.
(b) Calvin.
(c) Montessori.
(d) Comenius.

5. Alexander the Great conquered the known world during which period?
(a) 333 to 311 B.C.E.
(b) 331 to 316 B.C.E.
(c) 320 to 328 B.C.E.
(d) 336 to 323 B.C.E.

6. What was the profession of Aristotle's father?
(a) Mathematician.
(b) Physician.
(c) Farmer.
(d) Police commissioner.

7. The dynasty ruled China from ______.
(a) 875 to 186 B.C.E.
(b) 950 to 235 B.C.E.
(c) 1150 to 192 B.C.E.
(d) 1050 to 222 B.C.E.

8. When did Quintilian live?
(a) 35-91 C.E.
(b) 32-88 C.E.
(c) 38-85 C.E.
(d) 35-95 C.E.

9. ________ and Pestalozzi's educational reform is presented.
(a) Plato.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Rousseau.
(d) Aquinas.

10. Who was known for posting demands that denied papal authority?
(a) Calvin.
(b) Erasmus.
(c) Adams.
(d) Luther.

11. Confucius designed his educational system to be based on which of the following?
(a) Ethics.
(b) Government.
(c) Ideals.
(d) Morals.

12. The demands were posted on the door of which type of building?
(a) Senate.
(b) Church.
(c) Parliament.
(d) House.

13. The king ruled under the "Mandate of _____."
(a) Heaven.
(b) The People.
(c) Consciousness.
(d) Earth.

14. "All-knowledge" refers to thoughts and philosophies from ________ and Calvin.
(a) Comenius.
(b) Erasmus.
(c) Plato.
(d) Rousseau.

15. Which group used Plato's structure?
(a) Quakers.
(b) Ottoman Empire.
(c) Protestant Reformists.
(d) Catholic Church.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is not among the first four people discussed by Gutek?

2. When did Comenius live?

3. How old was Alexander the Great when he died?

4. Education for social change and reconstruction was introduced by _____ and Froebel.

5. Which is not among the schools that were popular during Erasmus' time?

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