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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 many children were in Puki's family?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Eight.
(c) Four.
(d) Ten.

2. What fictional character did Ashton-Warner reference in her section on education on marriage?
(a) Madame Bovary.
(b) Anna Karenina.
(c) Vronsky.
(d) Raskolnikov.

3. What kind of tree could be seen through the glass wall?
(a) Hickory.
(b) Chestnut.
(c) Magnolia.
(d) Walnut.

4. Which student wrote about his father hitting his mother in her face in "Compositions"?
(a) Riti.
(b) Rongo.
(c) Makere.
(d) Matawhero.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which student suffered a nervous breakdown?

2. To what music did the children perform spontaneous, expressive dance?

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

4. What color were the sports pullovers the basketball players were knitting for themselves?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the new teacher encountered by Ashton-Warner as she explores the renovated school.

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why did Ashton-Warner write at the end of "Holidays" that she was no longer lonely?

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

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

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

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