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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 were the chairs arranged for the reading and exchange period?
(a) There were no chairs used.
(b) In straight lines.
(c) In a ring.
(d) In three rows.

2. To what world-wide agency did Ashton-Warner refer to in describing teaching methods in underdeveloped nations?
(a) Feed the Children.
(b) Red Cross.
(c) Save the Children.
(d) UNESCO.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the snail nicknamed?

2. Who referred to dance as the "one complete expression" of a human's many faculties?

3. In what country did the volunteer describe teaching villagers how to read and write their own names?

4. To what children's classic did Ashton-Warner refer when writing about books not read in her classroom?

5. What was the ideal number of students to whom a teacher could give individual attention?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the role of handwriting in the Maori students' stories?

3. Why was teaching the class so back-breaking, according to Ashton-Warner?

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

5. Why did Ashton-Warner throw out words that students did not recognize the second time?

6. Why did Ashton-Warner believe that standardized reading texts were damaging to children?

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

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

9. Why did Ashton-Warner describe the language of published first readers as "dead"?

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

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