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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 object did Ayers compare teaching to in Chapter 1, "Beginning: The Challenge of Teaching"?
(a) A car.
(b) A can.
(c) A house.
(d) A quilt.

2. According to Ayers, what is built when there is an engaged and active citizenry?
(a) A strong democracy.
(b) Parental support.
(c) A republic.
(d) Better legislation.

3. Which culture required that each boy kill a lion and be circumcised in order to become a man?
(a) Sioux.
(b) African.
(c) Zulu.
(d) Aborigini.

4. Ayers believes that learning is what?
(a) Easy.
(b) Boring.
(c) Not linear.
(d) Hard.

5. What did Zayd want to get like Crazy Horse?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) A vision.
(c) Faith.
(d) Respect.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ayers believes that what sets up schools as institutional forms for re-creation of specific values and norms, dispositions, and assumptions?

2. What does Ayers say is required to teach from a solid base of knowing students?

3. Who was the subject used in a study by Davide Carroll?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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