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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the maximum number of children Ashton-Warner felt a teacher could give individual attention to?
(a) 15.
(b) 8.
(c) 12.
(d) 10.

2. 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 read the words to the teacher.
(c) They wrote stories using the words.
(d) They read the words silently to themselves.

3. What figure signified divinity in the Chaldean writing system?
(a) A dart.
(b) An eye.
(c) A triangle.
(d) A tree.

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

5. From where, according to Ashton-Warner, did most New Zealand children develop a "mass mind"?
(a) White New Zealanders.
(b) Britain.
(c) Australia.
(d) America.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what season was the story of the Little Red Hen told?

2. What was the snail nicknamed?

3. At what time did the students turn to the new words during the "intake period"?

4. Which student chose "King of the Rocket Men" as a key word?

5. What poet is quoted at the beginning of "Tone"?

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