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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Part Three : Chapter 2, Practical Life & Mental Processes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Montessori suggests that the animal instinct to walk at birth is gone in humans?
(a) We have the opportunity to create our movement.
(b) Infants are too pampered.
(c) We have digressed as a species.
(d) It is unnecessary.

2. Who defined man as the rational animal?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Plato.
(d) Jung.

3. What type of things does Standing write astonish small children?
(a) The smallest things.
(b) Only unique things.
(c) Most new things.
(d) Other people.

4. In "Work, Sensorial, Normalcy," what does Standing mean by sensorial world?
(a) An attachement to reality.
(b) Complusion.
(c) Conditioned learning.
(d) Required training.

5. Standing suggests that individuals set out to create two worlds, one within and one without, when does he state this begins?
(a) As a toddler.
(b) As an adolescent.
(c) At Birth.
(d) An an adult.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of work does the Montessori school promote?

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

3. According to Standing, what is the nature of the psychic life of man?

4. According to Standing, in "Practical Life & Mental Processes," what does silence create?

5. When comparing normalized children to those in a traditional classroom, how are these children often described?

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