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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 5, Part 5 : Chapter 1, Montessori & Froebel.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Montessori, why is oppression of children strange?
(a) Those who love the children, oppress them.
(b) They are the only ones oppressed.
(c) They do not know they are oppressed.
(d) Despite efforts to change, this oppression still occurs.

2. What does Standing compare the universe to when discussing how a child may see it?
(a) A jigsaw puzzle.
(b) A maze.
(c) A straight line.
(d) An illusion.

3. According to Montessori, what is a sensitive period?
(a) Puberty.
(b) Increased emotional time.
(c) Period where deviations may occur.
(d) A period of increased ability to learn.

4. Standing states that there was not a female precedent for the work Montessori was doing, what does the author mean by "female precedent"?
(a) No females were interested in what she was doing.
(b) No females could be paid for this work.
(c) No female had do it before.
(d) No females were allowed to do what Maria was doing.

5. What does Standing suggest that children prefer an imaginary world?
(a) The real world is too dark for them.
(b) It is one they can dominate.
(c) Simply because they are children.
(d) The real world is too large for them.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Development," what was unique about what children are able to do in a Montessori classroom in terms of their mistakes?

2. According to Standing, what did Froebel call the inner relationships that children look for between things?

3. In "The Fundamental Problem & Prepared Environment," what did Montessori say about universal oppression in relation to children?

4. What did Montessori value over words, according to a Catholic Priest that was quoted in "Development"?

5. What does Aristotelian philosophy suggest about theories that separate the soul and body?

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