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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 was Helen Keller's first word?
(a) Water.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Pump.
(d) Mother.

2. How did Ashton-Warner describe the worst assistant she ever had in the classroom?
(a) The girl told the students what to write.
(b) The girl insisted on a quiet classroom.
(c) The girl spoke incessantly about herself.
(d) The girl insisted on reprimanding the students.

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

4. Where did the smaller children sometimes go during the shared reading period?
(a) To another room for science.
(b) To the math room.
(c) To another room for history.
(d) Outside for games.

5. What color crayon did Ashton-Warner use for the key vocabulary?
(a) Red.
(b) Black.
(c) Blue.
(d) Green.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What superhero was included in the list of student words in "Organic Reading"?

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

5. How did Ashton-Warner describe the vocabulary in most set early readers?

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