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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Building Bridges.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a fixed and unvarying oversimplified belief that carries negative undercurrents?
(a) Regional prejudice.
(b) Regional stereotype.
(c) Prejudice.
(d) Cultural stereotypes.

2. Which child's father was active in the civil rights movement?
(a) Duke's father.
(b) Darlene's father.
(c) Kelyn's father.
(d) Jose's father.

3. What color did Darlene "spy"?
(a) Red.
(b) White.
(c) Brown.
(d) Yellow.

4. What does Ayers say followed Jose around like a shadow?
(a) School failure.
(b) Violence.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Job loss.

5. In Ayers classroom, what dominated the window sills and counter tops?
(a) Student projects.
(b) Photos of students.
(c) Teacher's artwork.
(d) Classroom rules.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ayers, it is important for all teachers to be what?

2. What does Ayers say that people must have to promote change in the educational system?

3. Whose house does Ayers say "invited one to pray"?

4. What did Ayers say "cramped choices and strangled life chances for the children of the poor"?

5. Ayers claims that what type of school tends be mechanistic and managerial, hierarchical, and bureaucratic?

(see the answer key)

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