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

2. What object did Ayers compare teaching to in Chapter 1, "Beginning: The Challenge of Teaching"?
(a) A quilt.
(b) A house.
(c) A can.
(d) A car.

3. What did Duke bring to the attention of the other children about Mr. Ayers?
(a) Mr. Ayers's eyes.
(b) Mr. Ayers's nose.
(c) Mr. Ayers's mouth.
(d) Mr. Ayers's hands.

4. What should all teachers take into consideration when understanding children, according to Ayers?
(a) Punishment.
(b) Lesson planning.
(c) Nighttime fears.
(d) Children's lives.

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"?
(a) The willingness to embrace the new.
(b) The problems that plagued education.
(c) The ongoing conversation about teaching.
(d) A new focus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ayers cite is the main reason students drop out?

2. What Shakespeare play was Ayers's brother required to teach?

3. What exists less than a half-mile from the University of Illinois-Chicago?

4. According to Ayers, what is the goal when kids become the "crowd or herd"?

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

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