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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. How many intercom interruptions occurred in the first four hours at P.S. 269?
(a) Two.
(b) Six.
(c) Seven.
(d) Four.

2. What does Ayers say the message should be to the children in youth?
(a) Focus on other students.
(b) You are a valuable person.
(c) You are here for an education.
(d) Do your best.

3. In Chapter 1, "Beginning: The Challenge of Teaching," what did John struggle with?
(a) Abused at home.
(b) Schizophrenia.
(c) Job loss.
(d) Alcoholism.

4. What is considered by Ayers an epidemic in our schools known as a toxic habit with no limits?
(a) Flu.
(b) Prejudice.
(c) Stereotyping.
(d) Labeling.

5. Ayers believes that what sets up schools as institutional forms for re-creation of specific values and norms, dispositions, and assumptions?
(a) Cities.
(b) Villages.
(c) Societies.
(d) Towns.

Short Answer Questions

1. What high school did Ayers's brother teach English?

2. Who was a beekeeper that often learned from the bees?

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

4. What did Ayers say died at an early age for too many young Americans?

5. Who assigns numbers to textbooks linking books to "grade-level"?

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