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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Keeping Track.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ayers said that someone is required to lay the first plank for what?
(a) Learning.
(b) Bridge-building.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Communication.

2. In Chapter 6, "Keeping Track," what is the process of narrowing, punishing, and controlling from the outside that too often passed for assessment?
(a) Assessed.
(b) Standardized.
(c) Factory-produced.
(d) Universalized.

3. According to Ayers, what were many of Ayers's students when he began teaching?
(a) Barbarians.
(b) At Risk.
(c) Culturally deprived.
(d) Savages.

4. What grade levels were standardized testing banned around the nation?
(a) Kindergarten- 2nd grade.
(b) 2-5 grades.
(c) 11th and 12th grade.
(d) Kindergarten and 1st grade.

5. How does Ayers feel about standardized tests?
(a) Ayers has been a life-long critic of standardized testing.
(b) Ayers enjoys taking standardized tests.
(c) Ayers supports the use of standardized tests.
(d) Ayers believes standardized tests measure students accurately.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the most recent standardized test Ayers took?

2. What was one of the goals of the Prospect School?

3. Who described an astonishing process while teaching a course "The Art of Black English"?

4. Ayers suggests that what happens when teacher's begin to value a child's opinions and experiences?

5. What is an important window into a child and an essential part of any bridge's blueprint suggested by Ayers?

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