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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What interesting word did Brian use to describe a bus in his story?
(a) Public.
(b) Jeep.
(c) Double-decker.
(d) Jalopy.

2. To what ancient writing system did Ashton-Warner refer at the beginning of the book?
(a) Cuneiform.
(b) Hieroglyphics.
(c) Phoenecian alphabet.
(d) Hangul.

3. What word did Mohi pick as his first key word?
(a) Ghost.
(b) Kiss.
(c) House.
(d) Jet.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. What figure signified divinity in the Chaldean writing system?
(a) A triangle.
(b) A tree.
(c) An eye.
(d) A dart.

12. For how long did Ashton-Warner experiment in developing the Maori transitional readers?
(a) Six years.
(b) Three years.
(c) Four years.
(d) Two years.

13. What superhero was included in the list of student words in "Organic Reading"?
(a) Wonderwoman.
(b) Superman.
(c) Batman.
(d) Spiderman.

14. To what Dickens novel character did Ashton-Warner refer in "Maori Transitional Readers?"
(a) Jean Valjean.
(b) Oliver Twist.
(c) David Copperfield.
(d) Tiny Tim.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is a "tangi"?

3. How long did Ashton-Warner give the students each day to write their stories?

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

5. At what time of the day was "paste paint" listed in Ashton-Warner's daily schedule?

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