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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Creative Teaching, 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the students do with their cards after they were handed out?
(a) They paired up with other students and taught each other the words.
(b) They wrote stories using the words.
(c) They read the words silently to themselves.
(d) They read the words to the teacher.

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

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

4. In what year did Leo Tolstoy begin his peasant school?
(a) 1869.
(b) 1862.
(c) 1857.
(d) 1859.

5. What did Ashton-Warner sometimes use to break up the difficult work of writing?
(a) Calisthenics.
(b) Playing outside.
(c) Expressive dancing.
(d) Listening to piano music.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the most powerful word under the "sex" category?

3. In the illustrations accompanying "Organic Writing," what fatal accident did one child claim had happened to him?

4. Under what category was the Maori word, "haka," placed?

5. What was the ideal number of students to whom a teacher could give individual attention?

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