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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) Grammar exercises..
(b) Writing exercises.
(c) Difficult reading.
(d) Fine literature.

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

3. What literature course did Mike teach during his time with the Veterans' Program?
(a) Introductory Humanities.
(b) Advanced Humanities.
(c) Advanced Grammar.
(d) Introductory Grammar.

4. 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.

5. According to Mike what was a nickname for remedial sections in the 1930s?
(a) Sick sections.
(b) Average sections.
(c) Counteractive sections.
(d) Remedial sections.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Mike's reaction as a boy read Shakespeare?

3. Who cautioned against psychological labeling?

4. What did Mike buy to read as a child?

5. What type of writer was Jerry Williams?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Mike say that teachers in some neighborhoods were unable to do anything for their students?

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

3. Why did Harold feel alone?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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