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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Leh.
(c) Nei.
(d) Eh.

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

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

6. How did Ashton-Warner approach spelling after the students wrote new words on the blackboard?
(a) She had the students spell the words from other students.
(b) She allowed students to pick a word to spell if they wanted to.
(c) She had each student write the spellings down for a test.
(d) She asked all of the students to spell all of the words.

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

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

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

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

11. What did the junior assistant or a senior pupil sometimes do with the younger students during shared reading?
(a) Do a science experiment.
(b) Sing.
(c) Read a story.
(d) Dance.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which student chose "King of the Rocket Men" as a key word?

3. To what Dickens novel character did Ashton-Warner refer in "Maori Transitional Readers?"

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

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

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