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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. According to Erich Fromm, what is the outcome of the unlived life?
(a) Destructiveness.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Substance abuse.
(d) Depression.

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

3. What did the students do with their cards after they were handed out?
(a) They read the words to the teacher.
(b) They wrote stories using the words.
(c) They read the words silently to themselves.
(d) They paired up with other students and taught each other the words.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which student's parents fought frequently and violently at night?

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

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

5. How did Ashton-Warner describe the energy released during the spelling period in "The Mechanics of Teaching Organic Spelling"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did Plato believe about dance?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How did Russian peasant students react to Leo Tolstoy's experimental school?

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