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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. How long did the reading period last?
(a) 25 minutes.
(b) 30 minutes.
(c) 15 minutes.
(d) 45 minutes.

2. How old was Peter, the chairman of the school board?
(a) 65.
(b) 58.
(c) 70.
(d) 60.

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

4. Which student wrote about his father hitting his mother in her face in "Compositions"?
(a) Makere.
(b) Rongo.
(c) Riti.
(d) Matawhero.

5. At what time did the students turn to the new words during the "intake period"?
(a) 11:30 a.m.
(b) 10:30 a.m.
(c) 11 a.m.
(d) 10 a.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the "game" in which children said what frightened them, what was Seven afraid of?

2. At what time of the day was "paste paint" listed in Ashton-Warner's daily schedule?

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

4. Who is the true school master, according to the quote from Caldwell Cook?

5. What word did Ashton-Warner say few boys did not know how to spell?

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