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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 did Mike's parents get him for Christmas?
(a) A toy truck.
(b) A toy race car.
(c) A chemistry set.
(d) An encyclopedia.

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

3. At which college did Mike work?
(a) California State.
(b) Westmont College.
(c) UCLA.
(d) Menlo College.

4. What college accepted Mike?
(a) Loyola.
(b) Stanford.
(c) Yale.
(d) Harvard.

5. Which student's parents were alcoholics?
(a) Ray.
(b) Alex.
(c) Harold.
(d) John.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the apartment complex where Mike lived when he attended UCLA?

2. Where was Laura born?

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

4. Who wrote that "schools are theaters were we play out the conflicts in the culture"?

5. What word did Rodrigo pick out in the word definition exercise Mike did with his students?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What type of ending did Hank write to the Rocky Raccoon story?

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

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

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

6. How did Mike describe the Goddess of Grammar?

7. What did Mike do to make money while at UCLA?

8. How did Mike describe Professor Gullans?

9. How did childhood reading open up Mike's world?

10. What did Mike learn from Ted Erlandson?

(see the answer keys)

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