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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. How did Mike define remedial?
(a) Substandard.
(b) Counteractive.
(c) Run of the mill.
(d) Average.

2. What did Mike buy to read as a child?
(a) Comics.
(b) Newspapers.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Tabloids.

3. Who was the historian of numeracy?
(a) Patricia Cohen Cline.
(b) Patricia Cline.
(c) Patrica Cohen.
(d) Patricia Cline Cohen.

4. How did Harold place in on his first grade reading readiness test?
(a) Remedial.
(b) Low average.
(c) Average.
(d) High average.

5. According to Mike, when did American colleges start using preparatory courses?
(a) Late 1800's.
(b) Early 1900's .
(c) Early 1800's.
(d) Mid 1800's.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mike, what type of assessment of students was more legitimate?

2. What type of writer was Jerry Williams?

3. According to Mike what was a nickname for remedial sections in the 1930s?

4. Who said "It is what we are excited about that educates us"?

5. What did Mike say that turn-of-the-century English education was built on?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Mike feel the educators of his time viewed helping the poor?

2. Why did Mike believe that the students' loneliness at UCLA was rooted in language?

3. What was Jerry Williams' reaction when he was told he couldn't take the final exam?

4. What did Mike say students needed to be able to succeed in college?

5. What did Mike say was the irony of testing students?

6. What did Mike say was the base of twentieth century English education?

7. According to Mike, how did nineteenth century educators view their mission to help the poor?

8. What did Mike struggle with when writing the procedures he used in his dissertation?

9. What types of exercises did the students do in Basic English?

10. In what way did Mike believe the education system required too much from their schools?

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