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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Creative Teaching, 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How long did many of the students' stories become by the time they were six?
(a) One whole paragraph.
(b) One page.
(c) Half a page.
(d) Three sentences.

3. How did Ashton-Warner approach spelling after the students wrote new words on the blackboard?
(a) She had each student write the spellings down for a test.
(b) She allowed students to pick a word to spell if they wanted to.
(c) She asked all of the students to spell all of the words.
(d) She had the students spell the words from other students.

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

5. How did Ashton-Warner "grade" the stories?
(a) She corrected the spelling only.
(b) She made suggestions for changes in the stories.
(c) She corrected the spelling and grammar.
(d) She never put any marks on the students' writings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a "pa"?

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

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

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

5. Which student picked the word bomb as a first key word?

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