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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did Ashton-Warner describe the worst assistant she ever had in the classroom?
(a) The girl insisted on reprimanding the students.
(b) The girl insisted on a quiet classroom.
(c) The girl spoke incessantly about herself.
(d) The girl told the students what to write.

3. Who referred to dance as the "one complete expression" of a human's many faculties?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Wittgenstein.
(c) Rousseau.
(d) Plato.

4. What short word did Ashton-Warner say (in "Maori Transitional Readers") was used by Maori at the end or beginning of most spoken sentences?
(a) So.
(b) Eh.
(c) Leh.
(d) Nei.

5. How were the chairs arranged for the reading and exchange period?
(a) In a ring.
(b) There were no chairs used.
(c) In straight lines.
(d) In three rows.

6. What composer was NOT mentioned among the list Ashton-Warner used in her classroom?
(a) Beethoven.
(b) Mozart.
(c) Chopin.
(d) Grieg.

7. What teacher did Ashton-Warner describe as being on the "high mountain" at the beginning of "Workbook"?
(a) Buddha.
(b) Christ.
(c) Lo Tung.
(d) Moses.

8. What poet is quoted at the beginning of "Tone"?
(a) W.B. Yeats.
(b) Emerson.
(c) e.e. cummings.
(d) T.S. Eliot.

9. In the illustrations accompanying "Organic Writing," what fatal accident did one child claim had happened to him?
(a) He died of cancer.
(b) He died in a car accident.
(c) He was murdered.
(d) He drowned.

10. To what animal was Ashton-Warner handed over in a Maori child's made-up story?
(a) An alligator.
(b) A gorilla.
(c) An orangutan.
(d) A lion.

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

12. What was Ashton-Warner's response to the problems with the set early readers?
(a) The students wrote their own books.
(b) She wrote the books for her students.
(c) She used existing Maori texts.
(d) She asked the families to provide better books.

13. Where did Ashton-Warner say many classrooms grow seeds for indoor study?
(a) In jars.
(b) In pots.
(c) In eggshells.
(d) In tins.

14. What was the most significant part of the students' shared reading?
(a) The teaching of grammar.
(b) The discussions.
(c) The practice in reading aloud.
(d) The teaching of spelling.

15. Which student chose "King of the Rocket Men" as a key word?
(a) Rongo.
(b) Gilbert.
(c) Mohi.
(d) Joe Joe.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ashton-Warner, what is the only answer to destructiveness?

2. What did Ashton-Warner keep on hand to repair the student books?

3. What figure signified divinity in the Chaldean writing system?

4. Where did the smaller children sometimes go during the shared reading period?

5. What did the students do with their cards after they were handed out?

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