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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 color shirt did Ashton-Warner wear while facing bad situations?
(a) Black.
(b) Pink.
(c) Blue.
(d) White.

2. How many Maori readers did Aston-Warner hand-print?
(a) 60.
(b) 45.
(c) 100.
(d) 30.

3. How many children can work at the art easel in the new classroom?
(a) Seven.
(b) Ten.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Five.

4. What fictional character did Ashton-Warner reference in her section on education on marriage?
(a) Raskolnikov.
(b) Vronsky.
(c) Anna Karenina.
(d) Madame Bovary.

5. Which student had a father who worked at the carnival?
(a) Matawhero.
(b) Mohi.
(c) Whareparita.
(d) Seven.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what did Ashton-Warner compare her classroom of the previous year?

2. How did Ashton-Warner describe the porch where she met with Tremaine?

3. Which student suffered a nervous breakdown?

4. How many children were in Puki's family?

5. Which student did Ashton-Warner say was one of her brightest and most sensitive, despite the poor handwriting?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Ashton-Warner criticize herself for the way she handled Matawhero's defiance after he hit Gordon?

2. In "Post Holiday Notes," what word did Ashton-Warner use to represent the key instinct of fear to her students?

3. Why did Ashton-Warner say that when giving first words to her students, she avoided showing them any illustrations of those words?

4. How did sentence length differ between whites and Maoris?

5. How did the behavior of the children differ in the new classrooms compared to when Ashton-Warner taught at the school?

6. What did Ashton-Warner think about as she gazed at the empty site where her old classroom had once stood?

7. What set the local Maori pa (village) where Ashton-Warner taught apart from other pas?

8. Describe the new teacher encountered by Ashton-Warner as she explores the renovated school.

9. What did the students' compositions reveal about their family lives?

10. What was the reaction of strangers to Ashton-Warner's multi-colored Maori belt?

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