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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. What was the title of the article in The Nation in 1896?
(a) "The Illiteracy of American Boys."
(b) "Illiteracy in America."
(c) "The Growing Illiteracy of American Boys."
(d) "American Illiteracy."

2. Where were Mike and his team sent?
(a) Juarez.
(b) L.A.
(c) El Monte.
(d) Tijuana.

3. What happened when Mike's test results were mixed up with the results of another high school student?
(a) He went to another school.
(b) He got placed on the vocational track.
(c) He was put in advanced classes.
(d) He quit school.

4. When did Mike's mother come to America?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1925.

5. Who did Mike go to see when he became sick with fear?
(a) Dr. Carothers.
(b) Dr. Hilsdale.
(c) Dr. Metzger.
(d) Dr. Jones.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Mike's first job before sixth grade?

2. Who did Mike say was the coolest kid he knew?

3. What was Ben's second cousin's name?

4. How many Southern Italian peasants immigrated to America between 1880 and 1920?

5. Who had been Mike's mentor on Loyola's literary magazine?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Laura struggle in Remedial English?

2. What type of school was Loyola when Mike attended in the early sixties?

3. What did Mike mean on page 102 when he said teaching "is a kind of romance."

4. Why did Mike say that he wrote "Lives on the Boundary"?

5. How did Mike describe Mr. Wilson?

6. What did Mike remember most about his childhood school days?

7. What did Mike mean when he said the classroom could be filled with possibility?

8. How did the students Mike worked with feel about the standardized tests?

9. What did Mike do with his student's writings?

10. What lesson did Mike design to help his students better understand vocabulary?

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