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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which was not one of the philosophers read by Dewey in school?
(a) Huxley.
(b) Comte.
(c) Kierkegaard.
(d) Kant.

2. According to the text there are ____ Montessori schools in the United States.
(a) 8,000.
(b) 6,000.
(c) 4,000.
(d) 5,000.

3. Dewey attended which prestigious university?
(a) Georgetown.
(b) Columbia.
(c) Johns Hopkins.
(d) Harvard.

4. Who was the Utopian Theorist and Communitarian Educator?
(a) Mann.
(b) Wallace.
(c) Williams.
(d) Owen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In which year did Gandhi die?

2. What was the name of Thomas Jefferson's father?

3. During this time, the face of America changed from embracing agriculture to embracing ____.

4. Jefferson joined which organization in 1775?

5. When did Horace Mann live?

Short Essay Questions

1. When did Paulo Freire live? What major events occurred in Brazil during Freire's life and career?

2. How and when did Jean-Jacques Rousseau begin his academic career?

3. When did Mohandas Gandhi live? What was the landscape of the Indian government at that time?

4. What were Dewey's key steps to solving problems?

5. What was Jean-Jacques Rousseau's basic education history?

6. What was Dewey's career path? How was he affiliated with Hull House?

7. When did W.E.B. Du Bois live? What major events occurred during this time and how did they affect the African-American community?

8. When did John Dewey live? How were Dewey's views shaped and by which events of the time?

9. What was the basic educational background of Maria Montessori?

10. When did Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi live? How was Switzerland changing during this time? How was Pestalozzi affected?

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