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

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

3. Which student's parents fought frequently and violently at night?
(a) Seven.
(b) Puki.
(c) Mohi.
(d) Rangi.

4. What was the ideal number of students to whom a teacher could give individual attention?
(a) 12.
(b) 8.
(c) 3.
(d) 10.

5. Where did the smaller children sometimes go during the shared reading period?
(a) To another room for science.
(b) Outside for games.
(c) To another room for history.
(d) To the math room.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the most powerful word under the "sex" category?

2. How were the children's stories "produced"?

3. How were the chairs arranged for the reading and exchange period?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why did Ashton-Warner find the European and American early readers two-dimensional?

6. How can a teacher tell when a book is valuable to her students, according to Ashton-Warner?

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

8. How did modern life in New Zealand make it difficult for people to use their inner resources?

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

10. What did Ashton-Warner mean when she referred to a workbook as a "middleman"?

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