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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What size were the cards Ashton-Warner used for the key vocabulary words?
(a) 12X8.
(b) 12X5.
(c) 10X6.
(d) 10X8.

2. What color ears did Ashton-Warner say she sometimes saw in children's illustrations?
(a) Green.
(b) Red.
(c) Pink.
(d) Blue.

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

4. What composer was Ashton-Warner playing when her students began doing expressive dancing?
(a) Shubert.
(b) Beethoven.
(c) Mozart.
(d) Handel.

5. How long were Ashton-Warner's seven-year-old students able to write?
(a) Full page stories.
(b) Ten sentences.
(c) Two or three paragraphs.
(d) Three page stories.

6. What were the two main instincts around which the key vocabulary was built?
(a) Fear and love.
(b) Fear and hate.
(c) Love and sex.
(d) Fear and sex.

7. According to Erich Fromm, what is the outcome of the unlived life?
(a) Destructiveness.
(b) Substance abuse.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Depression.

8. What did Ashton-Warner call the most "comely word" in the language?
(a) Peace.
(b) Rest.
(c) Love.
(d) Serenity.

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

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

11. Who is the true school master, according to the quote from Caldwell Cook?
(a) The artist.
(b) The parent.
(c) The student.
(d) The professor.

12. To what children's classic did Ashton-Warner refer when writing about books not read in her classroom?
(a) Alice in Wonderland.
(b) Peter Pan.
(c) Winnie the Pooh.
(d) Treasure Island.

13. What was the snail nicknamed?
(a) Seven.
(b) Stevie.
(c) Sally.
(d) Sammy.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which student picked the word bomb as a first key word?

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

4. How many students, according to the university professor quoted in "The Unlived Life," are capable of creative thought?

5. Where did Ashton-Warner say many classrooms grow seeds for indoor study?

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