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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Remembering.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Maori nickname for New Zealand?
(a) Land of the Green Mountains.
(b) Land of the High Valleys.
(c) Land of the Long White Cloud.
(d) Land of the Beautiful Mountains.

2. What is a "pakeha"?
(a) A child.
(b) A chief.
(c) A warrior.
(d) A white person.

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

4. What author, quoted by Ashton-Warner, advocated hitting children as punishment?
(a) Charles Dickens.
(b) D.H. Lawrence.
(c) T.S. Eliot.
(d) E.M. Forster.

5. What did Mark claim had been stolen from him in "Life in a Maori School, 1"?
(a) A backpack.
(b) An easel.
(c) An apron.
(d) A paintbrush.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color shirt did Ashton-Warner wear while facing bad situations?

2. What colors were on the Maori belt worn by Ashton-Warner?

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

4. In the illustrations accompanying "Organic Writing," what fatal accident did one child claim had happened to him?

5. To what children's classic did Ashton-Warner refer when writing about books not read in her classroom?

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