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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 became a helpful guide to teaching for Ayers and other teachers?
(a) Videos of best practice.
(b) The teacher taught straight from the book.
(c) The teacher allowed the student to pursue their goals.
(d) Motivational speakers visited and taught.

2. Ayers suggests that who "resisted the idea that there is some ideal child with whom they would be brilliant; they must reject the idea of social circumstance"?
(a) Parents.
(b) Administrators.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Principals.

3. What was one of the goals of the Prospect School?
(a) Higher pay for teachers.
(b) Less structured curriculum.
(c) Supported students rights.
(d) Supported teacher's efforts to create a learning culture.

4. Who believed that "Education was the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume the responsibility for it"?
(a) Hannah Arendt.
(b) Nel Noddings.
(c) Maxine Greene.
(d) William Ayers.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Duke bring to the attention of the other children about Mr. Ayers?

3. According to Ayers, what should the larger goal of education be?

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

5. How did deficiencies make Ayers feel?

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