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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 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.

2. What occupation does Ayers say teachers must "take on" to understand children?
(a) Pychologist.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Detective.
(d) Police Officer.

3. Who underlined the importance of identity and broadening group affiliation with adolescents?
(a) Sigmund Freud.
(b) Abraham Maslow.
(c) Erik Erikson.
(d) Jean Piaget.

4. Whose house does Ayers say "invited one to pray"?
(a) Harriet and Efrem's house.
(b) Coretta's house.
(c) BJ's house.
(d) Malcolm and Sue's house.

5. When Ayers took children to the airport concourse, what did they do?
(a) The children ate.
(b) The children sat down.
(c) The children watched people.
(d) The children ran.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Ayers stay alive as a teacher?

2. What is the focus of Ayers' book To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, Second Edition?

3. Who believed that "young children's thinking is concrete and immediate compared to the thinking of older children"?

4. What does Ayers say followed Jose around like a shadow?

5. What did Ayers's students do preschool through high school that was considered a class job or responsibility?

(see the answer key)

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