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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. What did Zayd want to get like Crazy Horse?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) A vision.
(c) Faith.
(d) Respect.

2. Ayers claims that what type of school tends be mechanistic and managerial, hierarchical, and bureaucratic?
(a) Small schools.
(b) Ideal schools.
(c) Big schools.
(d) Student-centered schools.

3. What do kids see that school is linked by more than anything else?
(a) By subject.
(b) By age.
(c) By development.
(d) By sex.

4. In Chapter 1, "Beginning: The Challenge of Teaching," what did John struggle with?
(a) Alcoholism.
(b) Schizophrenia.
(c) Job loss.
(d) Abused at home.

5. In Alex Haley's writing, whose coming of age ceremony did he record?
(a) Crazy Horse.
(b) Jose.
(c) Malik.
(d) Kunta Kinte.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who spent most of the summer designing a "core study" for students?

2. Which culture required that each boy kill a lion and be circumcised in order to become a man?

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

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

5. In Ayers classroom, what dominated the window sills and counter tops?

(see the answer key)

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