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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Part Two : Chapter 1, Exploration, Development &.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where can the reader find additional details about the Montessori method?
(a) The author's other books.
(b) At a local teaching university.
(c) The library.
(d) Montessori enducational system organizations.

2. What great philosopher felt that thinking about why a day is a day would be a waste of a day?
(a) Locke.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Polonius.
(d) Plato.

3. What did Montessori feel was the problem when children do not want to work on their own?
(a) The presentation of the material.
(b) The child's ability to learn.
(c) Problems with the teacher.
(d) The child's attention span.

4. Why are children initially unaware of cause and effect?
(a) They are not smart enough to understand it yet.
(b) They think they are invincible.
(c) They have no previous experience.
(d) Cause and effect only matter for older children.

5. What is the number one characteristic of a Montessori school?
(a) Children learn obedience first.
(b) Children pursue their own interests.
(c) Only gifted children receive privileges.
(d) State standards are taught.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Standing suggests that this book could be used as, despite its label as a biography?

2. What groups of people were often placed in mental institutions during the time Montessori began working?

3. When Montessori gave up her medical practice to focus on her teaching, where was she invited a number of times?

4. What does Standing state, in Book 1, Chapter 2 , Montessori was a champion for?

5. Standing states that there was not a female precedent for the work Montessori was doing, what does the author mean by "female precedent"?

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