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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. Who underlined the importance of identity and broadening group affiliation with adolescents?
(a) Abraham Maslow.
(b) Erik Erikson.
(c) Jean Piaget.
(d) Sigmund Freud.

2. What color did Darlene "spy"?
(a) Red.
(b) Brown.
(c) White.
(d) Yellow.

3. 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.

4. What does Ayers identify as a time of invention, discovery, and surprise?
(a) Adulthood.
(b) School.
(c) Daycare.
(d) Childhood.

5. Who described a student as "ordinarily expressive and lively when talking about ideas and information"?
(a) Jessica Howard.
(b) David Carroll.
(c) Maxine Greene.
(d) Pat Carini.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who believed that "young children's thinking is concrete and immediate compared to the thinking of older children"?

2. Who argued that "the teacher who wishes to be more functionary cannot escape the value problem or the difficult matter of moral choice"?

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

4. In the year 2000, how many children did not have health insurance?

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"?

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