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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Life in a Maori School, 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word did Ashton-Warner say few boys did not know how to spell?
(a) Jet.
(b) Cowboy.
(c) Indian.
(d) Rocket.

2. What was the most powerful word under the "fear" category?
(a) Ghost.
(b) Police.
(c) Knife.
(d) Frightened.

3. How many fancy-dress costumes did Ashton-Warner own?
(a) One hundred.
(b) Eighty.
(c) Seventy.
(d) Fifty.

4. At what time of the day was "paste paint" listed in Ashton-Warner's daily schedule?
(a) 1:00 to 2:00.
(b) 9-10:45.
(c) 9:30-10:30.
(d) 10:30-12:00.

5. What did the students do with the new words put up on the blackboard each morning?
(a) They added them to their stories.
(b) They practiced spelling them.
(c) They read them together out loud.
(d) They made sentences together with them.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Leo Tolstoy begin his peasant school?

2. Which author stated that "words have souls"?

3. How long ago had the Maoris ancestors arrived in New Zealand from Polynesia?

4. How many other books preceded the development of the Maori transitional readers?

5. What did the junior assistant or a senior pupil sometimes do with the younger students during shared reading?

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