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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 word did Ashton-Warner say few boys did not know how to spell?
(a) Rocket.
(b) Jet.
(c) Cowboy.
(d) Indian.

2. By what title was Tolstoy known to his students?
(a) Papa.
(b) Master.
(c) Count.
(d) Sir.

3. What did the students do if they ran out of time to write their stories in the allotted time?
(a) They finished them at home.
(b) They finished them in the afternoon.
(c) They finished them the next day.
(d) They extended the writing period.

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

5. How long were Ashton-Warner's seven-year-old students able to write?
(a) Two or three paragraphs.
(b) Full page stories.
(c) Three page stories.
(d) Ten sentences.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were the children's stories "produced"?

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

3. What did the students do with their cards after they were handed out?

4. Which student chose "King of the Rocket Men" as a key word?

5. In what year did Leo Tolstoy begin his peasant school?

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