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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 high school did Ayers's brother teach English?
(a) Los Angeles High School.
(b) Berkeley High School.
(c) North Campton High School.
(d) Bismarck High School.

2. Ayers believes that learning is what?
(a) Easy.
(b) Boring.
(c) Not linear.
(d) Hard.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ayers say that people must have to promote change in the educational system?

2. Which child's father was active in the civil rights movement?

3. Which Greek God did Ayers compare outstanding teachers to?

4. Who believed that "Education was the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume the responsibility for it"?

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

(see the answer key)

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