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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 pet did Matawhero bring to school in "Post Holiday Notes?"
(a) A lizard.
(b) A Siamese cat.
(c) A black kitten.
(d) A white dog.

2. What did Professor Baillie say killed education?
(a) Order.
(b) Tidiness.
(c) Serenity.
(d) Chaos.

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

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

5. What was one of the items "missing" from the new classroom?
(a) The murals.
(b) The wallpaper.
(c) The water trough.
(d) The coat hooks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the man doing the floors in the new classroom?

2. What writer referred to "pedagogical intercourse"?

3. What fictional character did Matawhero remind Ashton-Warner?

4. Which student had a father who worked at the carnival?

5. Which family's dog sometimes visited the class when Ashton-Warner was teaching?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did Ashton-Warner view the importance of handwriting?

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

6. How did Maoris and whites differ in terms of communal gatherings?

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

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

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

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

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