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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, Beginning, The Challenge of Teaching.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Ayers say "cramped choices and strangled life chances for the children of the poor"?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Schools.
(c) Inequalities.
(d) Parents.

2. Who believed that "Education was the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume the responsibility for it"?
(a) Maxine Greene.
(b) William Ayers.
(c) Hannah Arendt.
(d) Nel Noddings.

3. Ayers suggests that who "resisted the idea that there is some ideal child with whom they would be brilliant; they must reject the idea of social circumstance"?
(a) Principals.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Administrators.
(d) Parents.

4. According to Ayers, what is built when there is an engaged and active citizenry?
(a) Parental support.
(b) A republic.
(c) Better legislation.
(d) A strong democracy.

5. What Shakespeare play was Ayers's brother required to teach?
(a) A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(b) The Tempest.
(c) Julius Caesar.
(d) Romeo and Juliet.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Ayers, what should the larger goal of education be?

3. Ayers believes that learning is what?

4. What kind of teachers did Ayers suggest were needed now more than ever?

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

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