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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 group was Mike uninterested in joining?
(a) Reading.
(b) Religous.
(c) Gangs.
(d) Academic.

2. Why did Bobby feel unable to achieve the same high standards at UCLA that he had been able to achieve in high school?
(a) The teachers had higher expectations.
(b) The class sizes were larger.
(c) The environment had changed.
(d) The classes were harder.

3. At UCLA, what was the first language Mike chose to learn?
(a) Spanish.
(b) Dutch.
(c) German.
(d) French.

4. How many days a week did Mike and his team work in the schools?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

5. What type of high school student was Bobby?
(a) An illiterate student.
(b) A star.
(c) A straight A student.
(d) An underachiever.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who lived with Mike when he was seventeen?

2. What happened when Mike's test results were mixed up with the results of another high school student?

3. What college accepted Mike?

4. Who did Mike feel was the worst teacher he observed?

5. According to Mike, what did most students and professors call English A?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Mike describe the community of Maravilla?

3. How did Mike describe Dr. Gunner as a teacher?

4. What did Mike say he learned from the four men who gave him a good liberal education?

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

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

7. How did Mike feel about the final assignment in Professor Gullans' class?

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

9. What did Mike learn from Jack McFarland?

10. What did Mike learn in the Philosophy of Man class?

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