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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long did Ashton-Warner give the students each day to write their stories?
(a) 20 minutes.
(b) An hour.
(c) 15 minutes.
(d) A half-hour.

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

3. How many other books preceded the development of the Maori transitional readers?
(a) 75.
(b) 125.
(c) 100.
(d) 80.

4. Under what category was the Maori word, "haka," placed?
(a) Fear.
(b) Sex.
(c) Locomotion.
(d) Other.

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

6. To what natural phenomenon did Ashton-Warner describe the mind of a young child?
(a) An earthquake.
(b) A volcano.
(c) A tornado.
(d) A tsunami.

7. What was the most powerful word under the "fear" category?
(a) Frightened.
(b) Ghost.
(c) Knife.
(d) Police.

8. What did Ashton-Warner keep on hand to repair the student books?
(a) Stapler.
(b) Tape.
(c) Binders.
(d) Paper clips.

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

10. How were the children's stories "produced"?
(a) On a school typewriter.
(b) In their own handwriting.
(c) At a professional printers,
(d) In the teacher's handwriting.

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

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

13. How long did the reading period last?
(a) 30 minutes.
(b) 25 minutes.
(c) 45 minutes.
(d) 15 minutes.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the students do if they ran out of time to write their stories in the allotted time?

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

3. To what natural phenomenon does the term "Golden Section" refer?

4. By what title was Tolstoy known to his students?

5. What is a "pa"?

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