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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. Students with backgrounds like Mike, froze up when confronted with what?
(a) Fine literature.
(b) Writing exercises.
(c) Difficult reading.
(d) Grammar exercises..

2. According to Mike how did educators in the 1930s view literary problems?
(a) From a medical perspective.
(b) From an insightful perspective.
(c) From a medical remedial perspective.
(d) From a remedial perspective.

3. Who cautioned against psychological labeling?
(a) Rose.
(b) Maslow.
(c) Jones.
(d) Johnson.

4. Two months into his tutoring at his new job, who offered Mike a full time job?
(a) Dr. Carothers.
(b) Dr. Anderson.
(c) Dr. Sanderson.
(d) Dr. Jones.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mike give Jack to read?

2. Who was the historian of numeracy?

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

4. Why wouldn't Millie identify the word imagined?

5. What did the English Department in Ohio want?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Mike feel men joined the Veterans Program?

2. How did Mike help Millie on the word comprehension test?

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

4. What did Mike's work in the Veterans Program help him to do in his life?

5. What did Mike say was the link between students' backgrounds and their success or failure in college?

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

7. Why did Mike say educators viewed the poor as being different?

8. What did Mike learn about developing curriculum from his time spent in El Monte?

9. What did Mike believe caused Suzanne to write sentence fragments?

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

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