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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Creating an Environment for Learning.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ayers say the message should be to the children in youth?
(a) Focus on other students.
(b) Do your best.
(c) You are here for an education.
(d) You are a valuable person.

2. What does Ayers identify as a time of invention, discovery, and surprise?
(a) Daycare.
(b) Adulthood.
(c) School.
(d) Childhood.

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

4. What does Ayers say followed Jose around like a shadow?
(a) School failure.
(b) Job loss.
(c) Violence.
(d) Drugs.

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

2. What sport was Jose La Luz involved in?

3. What animal did the children observe outside a Chicago steel plant?

4. What do kids see that school is linked by more than anything else?

5. In Chapter 1, "Beginning: The Challenge of Teaching," what did John struggle with?

(see the answer key)

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