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

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

3. What does Ayers say "allowed us to glimpse into something of the depth of this enterprise and to unearth the intellectual and ethical implications"?
(a) The willingness to embrace the new.
(b) A new focus.
(c) The problems that plagued education.
(d) The ongoing conversation about teaching.

4. What does Ayers say followed Jose around like a shadow?
(a) School failure.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Job loss.
(d) Violence.

5. Who believed that "human beings spent their lives weaving webs of significance"?
(a) Gomer Pyle.
(b) Gilbert Ryle.
(c) Lisa Delpit.
(d) June Jordan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What model is curriculum built on based on Ayers's research?

2. In Chapter 4, "Building Bridges," what instrument did Bear play?

3. What is an important window into a child and an essential part of any bridge's blueprint suggested by Ayers?

4. Ayers believes that what is more than pieces of information, more than subject matter, more even than the disciplines?

5. How old was Chesa when Ayers began caring for him?

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