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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. Which Greek God did Ayers compare outstanding teachers to?
(a) Odysseus.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Homer.
(d) Achilles.

2. According to Ayers, what should the larger goal of education be?
(a) Increased teacher pay.
(b) Adequate education for all children.
(c) Complete overall of educational system.
(d) Adequate education for 75% of children.

3. Who asked how race relations were going in Chicago?
(a) Elaine.
(b) Jose.
(c) Duke.
(d) Irene.

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

5. According to Ayers, how many Americans were incarcerated in the year 2000?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 500,000.
(c) One million.
(d) Two million.

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

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

4. Which country's children did Gellhorn write about?

5. According to Ayers, it is important for all teachers to be what?

(see the answer key)

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