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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 was the name of the group of housing activists who constructed simple and livable structures for the homeless?
(a) Habitat for Humanity.
(b) Helping Hands of Chicago.
(c) Housing Agency of Chicago.
(d) Mad Housers of Chicago.

2. Who asked how race relations were going in Chicago?
(a) Duke.
(b) Jose.
(c) Elaine.
(d) Irene.

3. In Chapter 1, "Beginning: The Challenge of Teaching," how did one learn how to work well with youngsters?
(a) Reading books about youngsters.
(b) Watching others interact with children.
(c) Practice.
(d) Watching videos of children interacting.

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

5. 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) The willingness to embrace the new.
(b) The ongoing conversation about teaching.
(c) A new focus.
(d) The problems that plagued education.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is considered by Ayers an epidemic in our schools known as a toxic habit with no limits?

2. How old was Chesa when Ayers began caring for him?

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

4. What does Ayers cite is the main reason students drop out?

5. According to Ayers, what is the mentality of schools?

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