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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the last time someone bought new things for Helen?

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

3. Which student suffered a nervous breakdown?

4. What did the drawings depict in the Infant Reading Scheme that Ashton-Warner showed to Tremaine?

5. At what age did students enter Std., Form II in New Zealand?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What did the students' compositions reveal about their family lives?

10. What are the two worst enemies of teaching?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Maori girls in Ashton-Warner's classroom experienced success on the basketball court. Write an essay discussing the role of sports in academics. How does participation in team sports help students in the classroom? How does it help in other areas of life? How can schools ensure that the benefits of participation in sports are extended to all students, regardless of athletic ability?

Essay Topic 2

Ashton-Warner wrote at length about the importance of tone in the classroom. Write an essay exploring how tone is set in the classroom and how several people have a role in setting that tone. Does the tone have to be the same from classroom to classroom or school to school? Or should there be variations based on the unique needs of the teachers and students? How does a teacher determine what tone works best for her students and how does she achieve that tone, especially if it differs from what she would normally like to see?

Essay Topic 3

The Maori children in Ashton-Warner's classroom encountered racism from the majority white population in New Zealand. How did these attitudes affect the students at home and in the community? How did it affect them in the classroom? Did having a white teacher have an impact on them, even if she was open and accepting of them? How do societal assumptions and expectations impact a child's ability to perform in school? Do children internalize the prejudices they encounter or are they able to escape them in the classroom? How do teachers deal with the impact these prejudices may have on their students? Is it possible to fully counter them in school?

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