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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, The Mystery of Teaching.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of music was played at the detention center during work time?
(a) Classical music.
(b) Rock music.
(c) Country music.
(d) Rap music.

2. What does Ayers suggest is a highly personal and an intensely intimate encounter?
(a) Teaching.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Learning.
(d) Acting.

3. Who must be autobiographers and be authentic suggested by Ayers?
(a) Parents.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Administrators.
(d) Actors.

4. 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) The problems that plagued education.
(d) A new focus.

5. According to Ayers, what is in charge at the schools that limited individuality?
(a) The schedule.
(b) The principal.
(c) The building
(d) The teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ayers, what are schools?

2. Who was critically injured in a mountain climbing accident and struggled to walk?

3. According to Ayers, it is important for all teachers to be what?

4. What did Ayers's students do preschool through high school that was considered a class job or responsibility?

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

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