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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Creative Teaching, 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Ashton-Warner's response to the problems with the set early readers?
(a) She wrote the books for her students.
(b) She asked the families to provide better books.
(c) She used existing Maori texts.
(d) The students wrote their own books.

2. How long were most of the "stories" written by the students at the beginning of school?
(a) One paragraph.
(b) Two or three words.
(c) Two sentences.
(d) One sentence.

3. What is a "pa"?
(a) A Maori warclub.
(b) A Maori hat.
(c) A Maori dance.
(d) A Maori village.

4. In the illustrations accompanying "Organic Writing," what fatal accident did one child claim had happened to him?
(a) He was murdered.
(b) He drowned.
(c) He died of cancer.
(d) He died in a car accident.

5. What did the students do with the new words put up on the blackboard each morning?
(a) They added them to their stories.
(b) They practiced spelling them.
(c) They read them together out loud.
(d) They made sentences together with them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What figure signified divinity in the Chaldean writing system?

2. Where did the smaller children sometimes go during the shared reading period?

3. What were the two main instincts around which the key vocabulary was built?

4. What philosopher said that language must precede a nation's formation?

5. How were the chairs arranged for the reading and exchange period?

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