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

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

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

4. How did Ashton-Warner describe the energy released during the spelling period in "The Mechanics of Teaching Organic Spelling"?
(a) Chaotic.
(b) Energizing.
(c) Exhilerating.
(d) Frightening.

5. What was the maximum number of children Ashton-Warner felt a teacher could give individual attention to?
(a) 15.
(b) 10.
(c) 12.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did Ashton-Warner object to the use of terms such as "do not" in early readers?

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

4. How did Ashton-Warner "grade" the stories?

5. What did Ashton-Warner do with the key vocabulary words that were forgotten the next day?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were "key words" so essential to learning to read?

2. What did Plato believe about dance?

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

4. What did Ashton-Warner mean by "tone" in the classroom?

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

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

7. In what way does nature provide lessons that books or indoor plantings cannot?

8. How did the Maori early readers provide a bridge to eventual reading of European material?

9. How did the students perform when they did expressive dancing versus when they learned specific moves?

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

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