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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. At what age did students enter Std., Form II in New Zealand?
(a) 16 or 17.
(b) 13 or 14.
(c) 14 or 15.
(d) 12 or 13.

2. What emotion/activity was NOT listed under the "Daily Rhythm" section of Ashton-Warner's daily schedule?
(a) Loving.
(b) Crying.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Quarrelling.

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

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

5. 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 a thousand.
(c) One in ten thousand.
(d) One in a hundred.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Brian mean by the term he used to describe the bus in his story?

2. At what time did the students turn to the new words during the "intake period"?

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

4. What did the junior assistant or a senior pupil sometimes do with the younger students during shared reading?

5. What did Ashton-Warner call the most "comely word" in the language?

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