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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. When To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher was written, what percentage of American children awoke everyday in poverty?
(a) 22% of American children awoke everyday in poverty.
(b) 25% of American children awoke everyday in poverty.
(c) 33% of American children awoke everyday in poverty.
(d) 50% of American children awoke everyday in poverty.

2. Who was an amazing teacher that argued that the essence of cognitive development was "having wonderful ideas"?
(a) Mara Sapon-Shevin.
(b) Jose Vega.
(c) Eleanor Duckworth.
(d) Pat Carini.

3. How old was Zayd when the transformation of child to adult began?
(a) Ten.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Thirteen.
(d) Twelve.

4. How did deficiencies make Ayers feel?
(a) Fine.
(b) Happy.
(c) Ready for the challenge of learning.
(d) Inadequate.

5. Ayers believes that what is more than pieces of information, more than subject matter, more even than the disciplines?
(a) Curriculum.
(b) Course work.
(c) Life.
(d) School.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose house does Ayers say "invited one to pray"?

2. Who was an exemplary teacher that argued that one central organizing goal in our schools must be the creation of communities of care and compassion?

3. Who argued that "the teacher who wishes to be more functionary cannot escape the value problem or the difficult matter of moral choice"?

4. What kind of teachers did Ayers suggest were needed now more than ever?

5. Ayers suggests that who "resisted the idea that there is some ideal child with whom they would be brilliant; they must reject the idea of social circumstance"?

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