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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 was the name of the group of housing activists who constructed simple and livable structures for the homeless?
(a) Mad Housers of Chicago.
(b) Habitat for Humanity.
(c) Housing Agency of Chicago.
(d) Helping Hands of Chicago.

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

3. What year did Ayers begin teaching?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1965.

4. Compared to 0 dollars spent on school construction, how much did Illinois spend on prison construction in 1999?
(a) $400 million.
(b) 2 million.
(c) $200 million.
(d) 4 million.

5. According to Ayers, what is the goal when kids become the "crowd or herd"?
(a) Teach students one on one.
(b) To manage the mob.
(c) Teach great lessons.
(d) Create the "factory" student.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Ayers say the message should be to the children in youth?

3. Who argued that "teachers can be aided in the difficult matter of moral choice if they can adopt an ethic of caring"?

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

5. According to Ayers, what is built when there is an engaged and active citizenry?

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