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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the word "bambini" mean?
(a) Car.
(b) Pasta.
(c) Children.
(d) A type of wood.

2. Du Bois used a term "talented _____" to denote intellectually gifted elite of a race.
(a) Tenth.
(b) Seventh.
(c) Fifth.
(d) Third.

3. Industrialization created a labor class that typically worked ___ hours per day.
(a) 16.
(b) 14.
(c) 15.
(d) 18.

4. Rousseau had ____ children, whom he abandoned.
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 7.
(d) 3.

5. In which year was Gandhi born?
(a) 1866.
(b) 1869.
(c) 1867.
(d) 1868.

6. Pestalozzi came from which country?
(a) Lichtenstein.
(b) Italy.
(c) Romania.
(d) Switzerland.

7. Where did Thomas Jefferson live?
(a) Maryland.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) Virginia.

8. Who was the Leader of the Common School Movement?
(a) Wollstonecraft.
(b) Montessori.
(c) Mann.
(d) Jefferson.

9. Who was referred to as the "Advocate of Liberation Pedagogy"?
(a) Addams.
(b) Freire.
(c) Du Bois.
(d) Montessori.

10. When did Horace Mann live?
(a) 1786-1839.
(b) 1776-1849.
(c) 1796-1859.
(d) 1766-1829.

11. Who was the Advocate of Republican Education?
(a) Rousseau.
(b) Montessori.
(c) Jefferson.
(d) Mann.

12. Which of the following was most critical to Mill?
(a) Freedom of the press.
(b) Freedom of speech.
(c) Freedom of thought.
(d) Freedom of religion.

13. An Indian conference agreed to endorse Gandhi's free, compulsory education for ____ years.
(a) 7.
(b) 9.
(c) 5.
(d) 8.

14. How many days old was Rousseau when his mother died?
(a) 6.
(b) 9.
(c) 11.
(d) 3.

15. In which year did Paulo Freire die?
(a) 1997.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1992.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Gandhi's profession?

2. Jefferson attended which college?

3. What was Spencer's first name?

4. Who is known as the Prophet of Naturalism?

5. From which country did Montessori originate?

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