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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Standing, what is the highest form of spontaneous self-activity according to Froedlians?
(a) Reading.
(b) Structured work.
(c) Achievment.
(d) Play.

2. What type of interaction occurs in the Montessori classroom?
(a) Child-Environment.
(b) Teacher-Child.
(c) Teacher-Child-Environment.
(d) Teacher-Environment.

3. According to Standing, how did some visitors view unusual tasks seen in a Montessori classroom?
(a) Not appropriate for the classroom.
(b) Good learning experience.
(c) Interesting.
(d) A waste of time.

4. According to Standing, what is the nature of the psychic life of man?
(a) It ends quickly.
(b) It is repressed.
(c) It goes on for ever.
(d) It is only present in the intelligent.

5. In "Size, Movement, Instinct, Reason," what stage of development is the child, at birth, considered, according to the Standing?
(a) Abstraction.
(b) First stage.
(c) Infancy.
(d) Embryonic.

6. What process does not complete itself for several years after birth and can be fostered by the Montessori school?
(a) Self.
(b) Inactive incarnation.
(c) Superior incarntaion.
(d) Progressive incarnation.

7. What are traditional curriculum topics referred to as?
(a) The three Ws.
(b) Formatted education.
(c) The three Rs.
(d) National curriculum.

8. When should a new Montessori school introduce didactic materials?
(a) When the children reach 7 years old.
(b) At the very begining of the year.
(c) When the children are ready.
(d) When the right rapport have been created.

9. What did Montessori suggest the human grows principally during the fires year of life?
(a) Reason.
(b) Bones.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Muscles.

10. In Montessori & Froebel, what does Standing mean by the words "Luogo Chiuso"?
(a) Child-like.
(b) Enclosed space.
(c) Intellectual freedom.
(d) Open space.

11. According to Montessori, how does the child absorb information from the environment?
(a) Feeling.
(b) By living.
(c) Hearing a lecture.
(d) Direct education.

12. What is the reason for the difference in number of students per class in the Montessori classroom compared to the traditional classroom?
(a) Children lean from one another.
(b) Time constraints.
(c) Ability to control the children.
(d) Enrollment numbers.

13. What did Froebel study as a young student?
(a) History.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Business.
(d) Architecture.

14. In "Size, Movement, Instinct, Reason," what does the author state psychologists of this time placed an emphasis in?
(a) Learning theories.
(b) Inherited behaviors.
(c) Positive behaviors.
(d) Deviations.

15. At what age do many educational professional (non Montessori) feel children should learn how to read?
(a) 3 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 7 years.
(d) 2 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Montessori suggests that the animal instinct to walk at birth is gone in humans?

2. In Size, Movement, Instinct, Reason," according to Standing, what is the first act of a man's life?

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

4. What is one of the most misunderstood elements of the Montessori method?

5. In "Practical Life & Mental Processes," what does Standing suggest is a conquest to be won by humans?

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