1. Who argued that "teachers can be aided in the difficult matter of moral choice if they can adopt an ethic of caring"?
(a) William Ayers.
(b) Hannah Arendt.
(c) Nel Noddings.
(d) Maxine Greene.

2. According to Ayers, what is the mentality of schools?
(a) Profit-driven.
(b) Teacher centered.
(c) Administration centered.
(d) Student-centered.

3. Whose house always filled Ayers with tranquility?
(a) Malcolm and Sue's house.
(b) Harriet and Efrem's house.
(c) BJ's House.
(d) Coretta's house.

4. 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) Mad Housers of Chicago.
(d) Helping Hands of Chicago.

5. Which Greek God did Ayers compare outstanding teachers to?
(a) Odysseus.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Homer.
(d) Achilles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ayers say "allowed us to glimpse into something of the depth of this enterprise and to unearth the intellectual and ethical implications"?

2. According to Ayers, how many Americans were incarcerated in the year 2000?

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

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

5. According to Ayers, what is the educational system?

(see the answer key)

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