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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Standing state that small children often accept?
(a) Adult explanations.
(b) Their dependance.
(c) Only truth.
(d) The impossible.

2. How did Montessori begin trying to help those less fortunate?
(a) Giving them better medication.
(b) Smuggling them out of the hospital.
(c) Teaching them how to read.
(d) Observing.

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

4. According to Montessori, what occurs in terms of deviations, when an adult tries to help a child who does not need assistance?
(a) Failure to create.
(b) Invasion.
(c) Inhibition.
(d) Freedom.

5. What type of classrooms does Montessori prefer?
(a) Mixed age classrooms.
(b) Large classes.
(c) Classrooms with one adult per child.
(d) Small classes.

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

7. What groups of people were often placed in mental institutions during the time Montessori began working?
(a) Foreigners.
(b) Intellects.
(c) Criminals.
(d) Mentally retarded.

8. As Montessori's popularity grew, what did she realize about the reach of her teaching methods?
(a) They could be effective up to the University age.
(b) They would not be understood in some countries.
(c) They can be taught to parents.
(d) They are limited to early childhood.

9. In "Exploration, Development," what does Standing suggest is the reasoning some put behind the children's ability to work on their own in a Montessori classroom?
(a) They are simply playing and not learning.
(b) Hypnotic influnce.
(c) Strong discipline.
(d) They are given directions before visitors come in.

10. 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) Understanding of adults.
(b) Good grades.
(c) Respect for inner life.
(d) Education in being an adult.

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

12. What does Standing suggests that this book could be used as, despite its label as a biography?
(a) A Noble Prize winner.
(b) A door stop.
(c) An elementary school book.
(d) A University textbook.

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

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

15. According to Montessori, what are the two streams of development?
(a) Conscious and unconscious.
(b) Physical and unconscious.
(c) Mental and metaphysical.
(d) Mental and physical.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Montessori fortunate to have had?

2. According to Montessori, how do adults do their work?

3. According to Standing, what does the inner rhythm of the child represents?

4. What was one limitation Montessori had for continuing her schools?

5. As discussed in "Introductory Materials, Preparations & Discovery" based on Montessori's discovery, what was she initially able to do?

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