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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Seeing the Student.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did Ayers stay alive as a teacher?
(a) Ayers knew it all.
(b) Ayers did not let things bother him.
(c) Ayers closed his mind to others.
(d) Ayers stayed open to mystery.

3. What does Ayers say is required to teach from a solid base of knowing students?
(a) Vision.
(b) Hope.
(c) Support.
(d) Patience.

4. What Shakespeare play was Ayers's brother required to teach?
(a) Romeo and Juliet.
(b) Julius Caesar.
(c) The Tempest.
(d) A Midsummer Night's Dream.

5. What sport was Jose La Luz involved in?
(a) Running.
(b) Soccer.
(c) Football.
(d) Skateboarding.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ayers believes that what sets up schools as institutional forms for re-creation of specific values and norms, dispositions, and assumptions?

2. Who documented her classroom experiences through an impressive series of books?

3. What color did Darlene "spy"?

4. According to Ayers, what were many of Ayers's students when he began teaching?

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

(see the answer key)

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