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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 exists less than a half-mile from the University of Illinois-Chicago?
(a) Cabrini Green.
(b) An old church.
(c) A shanty town.
(d) A habitat house.

2. What was the average annual cost to house an inmate in 1999?
(a) $20,000.
(b) $10,000.
(c) $50,000.
(d) $30,000.

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

4. According to Ayers, what is the educational system?
(a) A failure.
(b) A success.
(c) An adequate system.
(d) An equal system.

5. What kind of teachers did Ayers suggest were needed now more than ever?
(a) Experienced teachers.
(b) Tired teachers.
(c) Crusading teachers.
(d) Kind teachers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did Ayers begin teaching?

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

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. Compared to 0 dollars spent on school construction, how much did Illinois spend on prison construction in 1999?

5. Ayers claims that what type of school tends be mechanistic and managerial, hierarchical, and bureaucratic?

(see the answer key)

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