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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. Who was the teaching assistant that pitched baseballs to a student everyday?
(a) Jose Vega.
(b) Malik.
(c) Mara Sapon-Shevin.
(d) Eleanor Duckworth.

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

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

4. Ayers believed that what is the strongest source of knowledge about a student?
(a) The parents.
(b) The student.
(c) Doctors.
(d) Teachers.

5. Compared to 0 dollars spent on school construction, how much did Illinois spend on prison construction in 1999?
(a) 4 million.
(b) $200 million.
(c) 2 million.
(d) $400 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ayers cite is the main reason students drop out?

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

3. Who argued that "teachers can be aided in the difficult matter of moral choice if they can adopt an ethic of caring"?

4. Who created an impressive archive and research center where they have collected the work of hundreds of children over many years?

5. What Shakespeare play was Ayers's brother required to teach?

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