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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 size were the cards Ashton-Warner used for the key vocabulary words?
(a) 10X8.
(b) 12X5.
(c) 10X6.
(d) 12X8.

2. What were the two main instincts around which the key vocabulary was built?
(a) Fear and hate.
(b) Fear and love.
(c) Fear and sex.
(d) Love and sex.

3. Which student picked the word bomb as a first key word?
(a) Gay.
(b) Dennis.
(c) Seven.
(d) Matawhero.

4. 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 made sentences together with them.
(c) They practiced spelling them.
(d) They read them together out loud.

5. What did the junior assistant or a senior pupil sometimes do with the younger students during shared reading?
(a) Read a story.
(b) Do a science experiment.
(c) Sing.
(d) Dance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the most powerful word under the "fear" category?

2. How did Ashton-Warner describe the energy released during the spelling period in "The Mechanics of Teaching Organic Spelling"?

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

4. Which student stumbled on the words "Come," "look," and "and"?

5. How long did Ashton-Warner give the students each day to write their stories?

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