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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 spelling period last?
(a) 10 minutes.
(b) 20 minutes.
(c) 30 minutes.
(d) 15 minutes.

2. How did Ashton-Warner describe the vocabulary in most set early readers?
(a) Unrealistic.
(b) Boring.
(c) Dead.
(d) Too happy.

3. What did Ashton-Warner call the "weakest" words in the language?
(a) She, he, it.
(b) Come, see, but.
(c) Come, look, and.
(d) Look, see, and.

4. How many fancy-dress costumes did Ashton-Warner own?
(a) Seventy.
(b) Eighty.
(c) One hundred.
(d) Fifty.

5. According to Erich Fromm, what is the outcome of the unlived life?
(a) Depression.
(b) Substance abuse.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Destructiveness.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where, according to Ashton-Warner, did most New Zealand children develop a "mass mind"?

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

3. Which student wrote about his father hitting his mother in her face in "Compositions"?

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

5. What word was outlawed at the school?

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