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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Creative Teaching, 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a "pa"?
(a) A Maori warclub.
(b) A Maori dance.
(c) A Maori village.
(d) A Maori hat.

2. In the illustrations accompanying "Organic Writing," what fatal accident did one child claim had happened to him?
(a) He was murdered.
(b) He died of cancer.
(c) He drowned.
(d) He died in a car accident.

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

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

5. What was the condition of the student-made books after several reading sessions?
(a) They were in pristine condition.
(b) They were in fair condition.
(c) They were in tatters.
(d) They were lost.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Ashton-Warner "grade" the stories?

2. What word did Mohi pick as his first key word?

3. What was one bird NOT mentioned as being seen outside the school?

4. What were the two main instincts around which the key vocabulary was built?

5. What word did Ashton-Warner say few boys did not know how to spell?

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