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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Seeing the Student.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Shakespeare play was Ayers's brother required to teach?
(a) The Tempest.
(b) A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(c) Julius Caesar.
(d) Romeo and Juliet.

2. What does Ayers state is part of the intellectual challenge of teaching, in addition to knowing students?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Self-awareness.
(c) Self-reflection.
(d) Kindness.

3. Ayers claims that what type of school tends be mechanistic and managerial, hierarchical, and bureaucratic?
(a) Small schools.
(b) Big schools.
(c) Student-centered schools.
(d) Ideal schools.

4. How did deficiencies make Ayers feel?
(a) Inadequate.
(b) Ready for the challenge of learning.
(c) Fine.
(d) Happy.

5. Ayers suggests that what happens when teacher's begin to value a child's opinions and experiences?
(a) Children disobeyed authority figures.
(b) Children became more shy.
(c) Children began to think more openly.
(d) Children became close-minded.

Short Answer Questions

1. What high school did Ayers's brother teach English?

2. Who argued that "teachers can be aided in the difficult matter of moral choice if they can adopt an ethic of caring"?

3. What type of school does Ayers say points toward students at the center of the education enterprise?

4. What was the center of the approach used at Prospect School?

5. What color did Darlene "spy"?

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