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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the Los Angeles Times write "A Drop in Student Skills Unequaled in History"?
(a) Winter 1976.
(b) Spring 1976.
(c) Summer 1976.
(d) Fall 1976.

2. What did Mike suggest Suzette use to avoid repetition in her writing?
(a) A grammar checker.
(b) Syntactic Maneuvers.
(c) The tutor center.
(d) A different approach.

3. What type of course did students take in the Freshman Summer Program?
(a) Math.
(b) Writing.
(c) Grammar.
(d) Science.

4. What was the Spanish word for a bass guitar with six strings?
(a) Bajo Sexto.
(b) Bajo.
(c) Sexto
(d) Guitarra.

5. Who taught Mike to work like a policy maker?
(a) Chip Anderson and Chuck Ries.
(b) Steve Anderson and John Ries.
(c) Chuck Anderson and Chip Ries.
(d) John Anderson and Steve Ries.

6. Who tallied the percentage of students that misspelled mortgage?
(a) W.S. Guiler.
(b) T.M. Guiler.
(c) M.T. Guiler.
(d) S.W. Guiler.

7. Who said that correctness was the era's "most significant measure of accomplished prose"?
(a) Steve Berlin.
(b) James Berlin.
(c) Michael Berlin.
(d) John Berlin.

8. Where did Mike say he did his most unusual teaching?
(a) UCLA.
(b) El Monte.
(c) Veterans Program.
(d) Learning Line.

9. What type of course did Mike want to develop for his students in the Veterans Program?
(a) A course to improve their lives.
(b) A course on thought.
(c) A course on past experience.
(d) A course on how to write better.

10. What literature course did Mike teach during his time with the Veterans' Program?
(a) Advanced Humanities.
(b) Advanced Grammar.
(c) Introductory Grammar.
(d) Introductory Humanities.

11. What rank was Andrea in her high school class?
(a) 15th out of 500.
(b) 1st out of 500.
(c) 13th out of 500.
(d) 8th out of 500.

12. Primarily, what type of high school student did Mike work with at UCLA?
(a) High average.
(b) Remedial.
(c) Honor.
(d) Average.

13. What did Mike believe that his students needed to be immersed in?
(a) Fine literature.
(b) The ability to self express.
(c) Good teaching.
(d) Talking, reading, and writing.

14. According to Mike, what was the curriculum at UCLA not doing?
(a) Increasing abilities.
(b) Addressing weaknesses.
(c) Helping students learn new things.
(d) Preparing students for the future.

15. How much did Mike say he wrote as a child?
(a) All the time.
(b) Only in school.
(c) Very little.
(d) As much as possible.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Mike believe that most of the men were involved in the program?

2. What was Mike's reaction as a boy read Shakespeare?

3. What kind of problem did the ophthalmologist say Harold had?

4. Who said that they wouldn't understand the logic of error?

5. What did Mike buy to read as a child?

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