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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. When To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher was written, what percentage of American children awoke everyday in poverty?
(a) 33% of American children awoke everyday in poverty.
(b) 25% of American children awoke everyday in poverty.
(c) 22% of American children awoke everyday in poverty.
(d) 50% of American children awoke everyday in poverty.

2. Who documented her classroom experiences through an impressive series of books?
(a) Vivian Gussin Paley.
(b) Maxine Greene.
(c) Kevin Sweeney.
(d) Hannah Arendt.

3. What does Ayers say "allowed us to glimpse into something of the depth of this enterprise and to unearth the intellectual and ethical implications"?
(a) A new focus.
(b) The willingness to embrace the new.
(c) The problems that plagued education.
(d) The ongoing conversation about teaching.

4. Who argued that "teachers can be aided in the difficult matter of moral choice if they can adopt an ethic of caring"?
(a) William Ayers.
(b) Nel Noddings.
(c) Maxine Greene.
(d) Hannah Arendt.

5. According to Ayers, what is the educational system?
(a) An equal system.
(b) A success.
(c) A failure.
(d) An adequate system.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was the average annual cost to house an inmate in 1999?

4. How did deficiencies make Ayers feel?

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

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