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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 did Ayers's space have "lots and lots" of?
(a) Clothes.
(b) Boxes.
(c) Books.
(d) Animals.

2. In the year 2000, how many children did not have health insurance?
(a) 40 million children did not have health insurance.
(b) 11 million children did not have health insurance.
(c) 20 million children did not have health insurance.
(d) 1 million children did not have health insurance.

3. According to Ayers, how many Americans were incarcerated in the year 2000?
(a) One million.
(b) Two million.
(c) 200,000.
(d) 500,000.

4. What did Ayers say died at an early age for too many young Americans?
(a) Opportunity.
(b) Grandparents.
(c) Parents.
(d) Hope.

5. According to Ayers, what is the goal when kids become the "crowd or herd"?
(a) Create the "factory" student.
(b) Teach great lessons.
(c) To manage the mob.
(d) Teach students one on one.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of African American boys does Ayers say will spend some time in prison?

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

3. What exists less than a half-mile from the University of Illinois-Chicago?

4. Who documented her classroom experiences through an impressive series of books?

5. Who asked how race relations were going in Chicago?

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