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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Life in a Maori School, 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color shirt did Ashton-Warner wear while facing bad situations?
(a) White.
(b) Blue.
(c) Black.
(d) Pink.

2. To what children's classic did Ashton-Warner refer when writing about books not read in her classroom?
(a) Alice in Wonderland.
(b) Treasure Island.
(c) Winnie the Pooh.
(d) Peter Pan.

3. How were the chairs arranged for the reading and exchange period?
(a) In a ring.
(b) There were no chairs used.
(c) In three rows.
(d) In straight lines.

4. Who referred to dance as the "one complete expression" of a human's many faculties?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Wittgenstein.
(c) Rousseau.
(d) Plato.

5. How many students, according to the university professor quoted in "The Unlived Life," are capable of creative thought?
(a) One in a thousand.
(b) One in five hundred.
(c) One in ten thousand.
(d) One in a hundred.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word was outlawed at the school?

2. How old was Peter, the chairman of the school board?

3. What was Ashton-Warner's response to the problems with the set early readers?

4. How much money had been lost in poker and beer by the parent of one student, in the section "Composition"?

5. Which basketball player had a leg injury and could not play in the competition?

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