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

2. What story was Ashton-Warner asked to read while trying to get the child to nap?
(a) Hansel and Gretel.
(b) Cinderella.
(c) The Blue Jug.
(d) Red Riding Hood.

3. What did Mere and June rub on their faces?
(a) Blue powder.
(b) Yellow crayon.
(c) Red paint.
(d) Red chalk.

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

5. What did Seven allegedly use to attack Wi?
(a) A mallet.
(b) A knife.
(c) A gun.
(d) An axe.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did one section of wallpaper depict?

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

4. How old was Peter, the chairman of the school board?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What are the two worst enemies of teaching?

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

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

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

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

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

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