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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what season was the story of The Three Goats told?
(a) Winter.
(b) Fall.
(c) Summer.
(d) Spring.

2. What was the ideal number of students to whom a teacher could give individual attention?
(a) 10.
(b) 3.
(c) 12.
(d) 8.

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

4. What "univited insect" was NOT seen in the classroom?
(a) Wasp.
(b) Spider.
(c) Lice.
(d) Mantis.

5. What was the most powerful word under the "sex" category?
(a) Darling.
(b) Love.
(c) Dance.
(d) Kiss.

6. How did Ashton-Warner "grade" the stories?
(a) She corrected the spelling only.
(b) She made suggestions for changes in the stories.
(c) She corrected the spelling and grammar.
(d) She never put any marks on the students' writings.

7. Where did the smaller children sometimes go during the shared reading period?
(a) To the math room.
(b) To another room for history.
(c) Outside for games.
(d) To another room for science.

8. What is a "tangi"?
(a) A traditional Maori home.
(b) A Maori dance.
(c) A Maori funeral.
(d) A traditional Maori tunic.

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

10. In what country did the volunteer describe teaching villagers how to read and write their own names?
(a) Libya.
(b) Morocco.
(c) Algeria.
(d) Egypt.

11. How many students, according to the university professor quoted in "The Unlived Life," are capable of creative thought?
(a) One in a hundred.
(b) One in ten thousand.
(c) One in five hundred.
(d) One in a thousand.

12. At what time did the students turn to the new words during the "intake period"?
(a) 10:30 a.m.
(b) 11 a.m.
(c) 11:30 a.m.
(d) 10 a.m.

13. Which student picked the word bomb as a first key word?
(a) Seven.
(b) Matawhero.
(c) Dennis.
(d) Gay.

14. What color crayon did Ashton-Warner use for the key vocabulary?
(a) Green.
(b) Red.
(c) Blue.
(d) Black.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did NOT affect classroom tone, according to Ashton-Warner?

2. According to Erich Fromm, what is the outcome of the unlived life?

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

4. What teacher did Ashton-Warner describe as being on the "high mountain" at the beginning of "Workbook"?

5. How long were most of the "stories" written by the students at the beginning of school?

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