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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long were most of the "stories" written by the students at the beginning of school?
(a) Two or three words.
(b) One sentence.
(c) Two sentences.
(d) One paragraph.

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

3. What activity was NOT included under the 2:10-3 p.m. time slot under "Daily Rhythm"?
(a) Supplementary Reading.
(b) Standard Reading.
(c) Standard Vocabulary.
(d) Creative Writing.

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

5. In what season was the story of The Three Goats told?
(a) Summer.
(b) Spring.
(c) Winter.
(d) Fall.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Under what category was the Maori word, "haka," placed?

3. How long did many of the students' stories become by the time they were six?

4. What is a "pa"?

5. What size were the cards Ashton-Warner used for the key vocabulary words?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Ashton-Warner mean when she wrote that "we don't waste enough in school?"

2. Why did Ashton-Warner describe children's minds as volcanoes and how did that affect her teaching?

3. What was the connection Ashton-Warner drew between the infant room and war and peace?

4. Into what two main categories did Ashton-Warner place many of her students' first words?

5. How did early exposure to white cultural norms adversely affect the Maori?

6. What was Ashton-Warner's reaction to the sometimes violent imagery used in the children's stories?

7. What is wrong with the cadence in many published first readers?

8. Why was the class so noisy while the children studied their individual key words and what did that noise signify?

9. What was the importance of the "inner illustration" in the children's self-written stories?

10. How did the children's writings differ from the standard readers offered in most schools?

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