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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 Amira's supposed score in basketball practice?
(a) 721.
(b) 760.
(c) 821.
(d) 536.

2. To what music did the children perform spontaneous, expressive dance?
(a) Vivaldi.
(b) Mozart.
(c) Chopin.
(d) Shubert.

3. What color did Ashton-Warner say she liked after her basketball team won?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Orange.
(c) Red.
(d) Blue.

4. What color were the new doors in the classrooms?
(a) Blue.
(b) Yellow.
(c) White.
(d) Red.

5. What is a "marae?"
(a) A temple enclosure.
(b) A wooden spear.
(c) A ceremonial mask.
(d) A totem pole.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ashton-Warner, who provided the beer for the three-day party?

2. What word was outlawed at the school?

3. What was one of the items "missing" from the new classroom?

4. How much ice cream did the boys steal from the shop in "Post Holiday Notes"?

5. Which student's mother turned away from Ashton-Warner while walking through town?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Ashton-Warner so worried about the prospect of being visited by the inspector?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why was it important to offer only present tense verbs to new readers?

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

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

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