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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was the ideal number of students to whom a teacher could give individual attention?
(a) 10.
(b) 12.
(c) 8.
(d) 3.

4. What educational thinker was quoted at the beginning of "Organic Writing"?
(a) John Dewey.
(b) Horace Mann.
(c) C.E. Beebe.
(d) Rousseau.

5. Under what category was the Maori word, "haka," placed?
(a) Other.
(b) Fear.
(c) Sex.
(d) Locomotion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What size were the cards Ashton-Warner used for the key vocabulary words?

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

3. By what title was Tolstoy known to his students?

4. Which student's parents fought frequently and violently at night?

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

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