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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an natural and important factor to children's learning according to Standing in "Work, Sensorial, Normalcy"?
(a) Receiving answers from adults.
(b) Repetition.
(c) External thinking.
(d) Internal thinking.

2. According to Montessori, in addition to early childhood, what other stage of development is one of great transformation?
(a) Toddler.
(b) Adolescence.
(c) 9 year olds.
(d) Adulthood.

3. What type of principles does the Montessori method focus?
(a) Those that are effective in adults.
(b) Those that occur naturally in children.
(c) Reading.
(d) Mathematics.

4. What did Montessori call the 1900s?
(a) The Educational Revolution.
(b) The Time for Change.
(c) The Century for the Teacher.
(d) The Century of the Child.

5. 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 female had do it before.
(c) No females were allowed to do what Maria was doing.
(d) No females could be paid for this work.

6. What does Standing state about the existence of the body as a baby experiences it?
(a) They are intriuged.
(b) They can not make the connection.
(c) They do not realize it until much later.
(d) They are uninterested.

7. As discussed in "Introductory Materials, Preparations & Discovery" based on Montessori's discovery, what was she initially able to do?
(a) Provided these individuals with equipment.
(b) Open a school.
(c) Find a better job.
(d) Make more money.

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

9. 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) An an adult.
(c) As an adolescent.
(d) At Birth.

10. According to Montessori, how do adults do their work?
(a) Pressured.
(b) With an external aim.
(c) With an internal aim.
(d) Slowly.

11. As Montessori began working for underprivileged children, she had two assistants and how many children?
(a) 40.
(b) 60.
(c) 50.
(d) 30.

12. After finding it too difficult to continue her work in Italy, where did Montessori go to continue her work?
(a) England.
(b) America.
(c) China.
(d) Spain.

13. In "Development," what were children given in a Montessori classroom that was evident through their obedience toward adults and ability to strive for perfection on their own terms?
(a) Respect for inner life.
(b) Understanding of adults.
(c) Good grades.
(d) Education in being an adult.

14. When comparing normalized children to those in a traditional classroom, how are these children often described?
(a) As superior.
(b) As abnormal.
(c) As good children.
(d) As normal.

15. During the time Montessori began working, who was making great efforts to understand the mentally ill?
(a) Freud.
(b) Clements.
(c) Kennedy.
(d) Newton.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Montessori, what effects does the herd instinct have in boys?

3. According to Montessori, when does the second epoch of development begin?

4. During the time discussed in "Introductory Materials, Preparations & Discovery," what does Montessori discover about those she helped?

5. According to Montessori, which of the following is not an indication of the transition form the first to the second stage of childhood?

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