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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Life in a Maori School, 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Ashton-Warner sometimes use to break up the difficult work of writing?
(a) Expressive dancing.
(b) Playing outside.
(c) Listening to piano music.
(d) Calisthenics.

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

4. How long did the spelling period last?
(a) 20 minutes.
(b) 15 minutes.
(c) 10 minutes.
(d) 30 minutes.

5. What did Ashton-Warner do with the key vocabulary words that were forgotten the next day?
(a) She destroyed those cards.
(b) She focused on teaching those words.
(c) She tried the cards with other students.
(d) She put the cards away for another day.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what natural phenomenon did Ashton-Warner describe the mind of a young child?

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

4. What instrument did the seven-year-old twins play after the event for Kahu?

5. What was the ideal number of students to whom a teacher could give individual attention?

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