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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. In what town was the "most spectacular" Maori meeting house in New Zealand?
(a) Wellington.
(b) Waiomatatini.
(c) Auckland.
(d) Smithtown.

2. What did Ashton-Warner call the "weakest" words in the language?
(a) She, he, it.
(b) Come, look, and.
(c) Come, see, but.
(d) Look, see, and.

3. What did Mark claim had been stolen from him in "Life in a Maori School, 1"?
(a) A backpack.
(b) An apron.
(c) An easel.
(d) A paintbrush.

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

5. What did the drawings depict in the Infant Reading Scheme that Ashton-Warner showed to Tremaine?
(a) Ihaka.
(b) Wellington.
(c) Puki.
(d) Pa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did her former students do when Ashton-Warner arrived to visit their new classroom?

2. Which basketball player had a leg injury and could not play in the competition?

3. What is a "taiaha"?

4. What did Mrs. Cutter send to Ashton-Warner in "Life in a Maori School, 1"?

5. What word was NOT included on the list of words for struggling readers in February?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why was Ashton-Warner surprised at the appearance of the new classrooms when she visited?

3. In her discussion of pedagogy as marriage, what did Ashton-Warner mean when she said that "love interferes with fidelity"?

4. What were the vocabulary words like in the new classroom?

5. What role did discipline play in Ashton-Warner's classroom?

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

7. How did Ashton-Warner describe the moments in her life when she knew the meaning of what was happening to her?

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

9. Why did Ashton-Warner's white student, Dennis, have a nervous breakdown?

10. What revelation did Ashton-Warner have in "Post-Holiday Notes" about using Maori readers with both Maori and white students?

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