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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. Who believed that "young children's thinking is concrete and immediate compared to the thinking of older children"?
(a) Abraham Maslow.
(b) Erik Erikson.
(c) Jean Piaget.
(d) Sigmund Freud.

2. Ayers claims that what type of school tends be mechanistic and managerial, hierarchical, and bureaucratic?
(a) Student-centered schools.
(b) Ideal schools.
(c) Big schools.
(d) Small schools.

3. What did Ayers say died at an early age for too many young Americans?
(a) Parents.
(b) Hope.
(c) Opportunity.
(d) Grandparents.

4. In Chapter 1, "Beginning: The Challenge of Teaching," how did one learn how to work well with youngsters?
(a) Reading books about youngsters.
(b) Watching others interact with children.
(c) Watching videos of children interacting.
(d) Practice.

5. Which child's father was active in the civil rights movement?
(a) Darlene's father.
(b) Jose's father.
(c) Duke's father.
(d) Kelyn's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ayers say is required to teach from a solid base of knowing students?

2. What type of school does Ayers say points toward students at the center of the education enterprise?

3. Compared to 0 dollars spent on school construction, how much did Illinois spend on prison construction in 1999?

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

5. What percentage of African American boys does Ayers say will spend some time in prison?

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