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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. How did Ashton-Warner react to Matawhero's attack on the other student?
(a) She put him in timeout.
(b) She made him sit in front of the class all day.
(c) She sent him home.
(d) She made Matawhero apologize to the other student.

2. Which of her former students was NOT in the new classroom for the new readers?
(a) One-Pint.
(b) Blossom.
(c) Nuku.
(d) Seven.

3. Where did the visitors who came to look at the Maori primers visiting from?
(a) The school board.
(b) The university.
(c) An Australian school.
(d) An American school.

4. What is a "taiaha"?
(a) A totem pole.
(b) A flint knife.
(c) A protective shield.
(d) A wooden spear.

5. What was the new teacher doing when Ashton-Warner left the classroom?
(a) Reading a story to the children.
(b) Showing the children where to hang their coats.
(c) Asking each child to read a word.
(d) Collecting homework assignments.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color did Ashton-Warner say she liked after her basketball team won?

2. Which student did Ashton-Warner say had to talk to the teacher every time she read a story?

3. Which student wrote about a father drinking all the beer at the party?

4. How much money had been lost in poker and beer by the parent of one student, in the section "Composition"?

5. What color were the new doors in the classrooms?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the two worst enemies of teaching?

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

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

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

6. Why was Ashton-Warner upset about the way she handled Mark Cutter when his mother insisted that her son was advancing too quickly in class?

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

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

9. To what did Ashton-Warner attribute the lack of cohesiveness in some of her later students' stories?

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

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