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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 purpose of the Writing Research Project?
(a) To study how writing was taught at Loyola.
(b) To study how writing was taught at UCLA.
(c) To increase the writing abilities of students at Loyola.
(d) To increse the writing abilities of students at UCLA.

2. According to Mike what was task representation?
(a) The way a problem was depicted in text.
(b) The approach a person took in solving a problem.
(c) The way a problem was depicted in the mind.
(d) The way a person looked at a problem.

3. What did Mike discover about the men after spending two months with them?
(a) They were complicated people.
(b) The program was hard for them.
(c) They all wanted the same thing.
(d) Each one was on his own psychic timetable.

4. How did Kathy feel at UCLA?
(a) Out of her element.
(b) Welcome.
(c) Alone.
(d) In her element.

5. Who tallied the percentage of students that misspelled mortgage?
(a) S.W. Guiler.
(b) T.M. Guiler.
(c) W.S. Guiler.
(d) M.T. Guiler.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word did Mike use referring to the lively UCLA building where he worked?

2. Who taught Mike to work like a policy maker?

3. Where did Mike say he did his most unusual teaching?

4. What literature did Mike say that he knew little about?

5. What did Mike believe that his students needed to be immersed in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What struck Mike most about people struggling to learn?

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

3. Why did Harold feel alone?

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

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

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

7. Why did Mike think Harold's favorite song was "My Boyfriend's Back" by the Angels.

8. What did Arthur do when he went mad?

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

10. According to Mike, turn-of-the-century English education was based on what?

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