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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said, "It was an exercise that was all analysis and no synthesis"?

2. How did Mike try to avoid his inadequacy in a particular subject?

3. How much did John pay to rent his apartment in 1962?

4. Who lived with Mike when he was seventeen?

5. When Mike was in high school, where did he think he would go to college?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Mike learn from Jack McFarland?

2. How did Mike feel that the students at Loyola related to each other?

3. How did Mike describe the Goddess of Grammar?

4. Why did Mike say that he wrote "Lives on the Boundary"?

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

6. What did Mike mean on page 102 when he said teaching "is a kind of romance."

7. What did Mike remember most about his childhood school days?

8. During Mike's high school years, what were his feelings about going to college?

9. What did Mike say happened when students received extrinsic rewards?

10. What did Mike say he learned from the four men who gave him a good liberal education?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how Mike's background affected his teaching methods. Use examples from the book.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how Mike's time spent teaching students in El Monte affected his teaching methods. Use examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the connection that Mike felt with some of his students from the Veterans Program. Use examples from the book.

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