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

2. What does Ayers say lesson plans typically begin with?
(a) With behavioral objectives.
(b) With an anticipatory set.
(c) With state and national standards.
(d) With lesson objectives.

3. Who created an impressive archive and research center where they have collected the work of hundreds of children over many years?
(a) Maxine Greene.
(b) Kevin Sweeney.
(c) Pat Carini.
(d) William Ayers.

4. How old was Chesa when Ayers began caring for him?
(a) 14 months old.
(b) 14 years old.
(c) 4 years old.
(d) 10 years old.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Duke bring to the attention of the other children about Mr. Ayers?

2. Who asked how race relations were going in Chicago?

3. According to Ayers, what is the educational system?

4. According to Ayers, what is the goal when kids become the "crowd or herd"?

5. According to Ayers, how many Americans were incarcerated in the year 2000?

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