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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. How do students often meet the curriculum as suggested by Ayers?
(a) With excitiment.
(b) Happily.
(c) Upset.
(d) With indifference.

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

3. What animal did the children observe outside a Chicago steel plant?
(a) Bald eagle.
(b) Fox.
(c) Snowy Owl.
(d) Deer.

4. What was one of the goals of the Prospect School?
(a) Supported students rights.
(b) Higher pay for teachers.
(c) Supported teacher's efforts to create a learning culture.
(d) Less structured curriculum.

5. According to Ayers, what tells us what to do?
(a) Our environments.
(b) Our parents.
(c) Our teachers.
(d) Our principals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which country's children did Gellhorn write about?

2. According to Ayers, what is in charge at the schools that limited individuality?

3. Ayers believed that ____________ integrate and give meaning to other aspects of school and curriculum, along with engaging and focusing children's energy.

4. Who was critically injured in a mountain climbing accident and struggled to walk?

5. What does Ayers say "allowed us to glimpse into something of the depth of this enterprise and to unearth the intellectual and ethical implications"?

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