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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 suggests that what is built on a base of knowledge about students?
(a) Outstanding learning.
(b) Outstanding schools.
(c) Outstanding parents.
(d) Outstanding teaching.

2. What allows teachers to see what students are up to while asking them to do the work themselves?
(a) Standardized testing.
(b) Homework.
(c) Project-based learning.
(d) Classroom practice work.

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

4. How old was Zayd when the transformation of child to adult began?
(a) Ten.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Thirteen.

5. According to Ayers, what are standardized tests?
(a) Excellent.
(b) Good.
(c) Bad.
(d) A great measurement tool.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a great motivator for student ceremonies according to Chapter 4, "Building Bridges"?

2. How does Ayers feel about standardized tests?

3. According to Ayers, what are tests surrounded by?

4. In Alex Haley's writing, whose coming of age ceremony did he record?

5. Who believed that "human beings spent their lives weaving webs of significance"?

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