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

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

3. What did her former students do when Ashton-Warner arrived to visit their new classroom?
(a) They gathered in a circle around her.
(b) They sat still in their chairs.
(c) They ran helter-skelter toward her.
(d) They rose together to greet her.

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

5. What were Ashton-Warner and Mr. Tremaine drinking while talking on the porch?
(a) Wine.
(b) Beer.
(c) Tea.
(d) Coffee.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the visitors who came to look at the Maori primers visiting from?

2. Why could the children not yet go into the classrooms?

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

4. In the "game" in which children said what frightened them, what was Seven afraid of?

5. Which student wrote about his father hitting his mother in her face in "Compositions"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What was Ashton-Warner's attitude toward the white students who accused Maori students of theft?

10. What happened when Ashton-Warner attempted to secure school uniforms for her students from a nearby shop?

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