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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Life in A Maori School, 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what tense should verbs be when taught to beginning readers, according to Ashton-Warern?
(a) Present.
(b) Present subjunctive.
(c) Past.
(d) Past perfect.

2. What writer referred to "pedagogical intercourse"?
(a) Freud.
(b) Heidegger.
(c) Spinoza.
(d) Buber.

3. Why did Ashton-Warner object to the use of terms such as "do not" in early readers?
(a) They delayed the introduction of reading contractions.
(b) They were too long.
(c) They did not represent the way people spoke.
(d) They were not used among the Maori.

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

5. What event was being celebrated for Kahu at the Assembly Hall?
(a) His baptism.
(b) His coming-of-age.
(c) His anniversary.
(d) His graduation.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long ago had the Maoris ancestors arrived in New Zealand from Polynesia?

2. What is the Maori nickname for New Zealand?

3. What was Ashton-Warner's response to the problems with the set early readers?

4. According to Erich Fromm, what is the outcome of the unlived life?

5. What instrument did Waiwini play?

(see the answer key)

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