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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Liberating the Curriculum.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Ayers in Chapter 4, "Building Bridges," what was the "work of life"?
(a) Choosing.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Learning.

2. How many inhabitants spoke English as the native tongue in 1988, according to Chapter 4, "Building Bridges"?
(a) 333,000,000
(b) 33,746,000
(c) 3,746,000
(d) 333,746,000

3. What did Ayers say "cramped choices and strangled life chances for the children of the poor"?
(a) Schools.
(b) Inequalities.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Parents.

4. What object did Ayers compare teaching to in Chapter 1, "Beginning: The Challenge of Teaching"?
(a) A can.
(b) A car.
(c) A house.
(d) A quilt.

5. In which publication did Martha Gellhorn write a piece about loving our children?
(a) Time.
(b) Life.
(c) Redbook.
(d) Ladies Home Journal.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ayers, what should the larger goal of education be?

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

3. How old was Zayd when the transformation of child to adult began?

4. Who was an amazing teacher that argued that the essence of cognitive development was "having wonderful ideas"?

5. Ayers claims that what type of school tends be mechanistic and managerial, hierarchical, and bureaucratic?

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