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

2. Who underlined the importance of identity and broadening group affiliation with adolescents?
(a) Jean Piaget.
(b) Sigmund Freud.
(c) Erik Erikson.
(d) Abraham Maslow.

3. 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?
(a) Pat Carini.
(b) Eleanor Duckworth.
(c) Mara Sapon-Shevin.
(d) Jose Vega.

4. According to Ayers, what is the educational system?
(a) A failure.
(b) An equal system.
(c) An adequate system.
(d) A success.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ayers say is required to teach from a solid base of knowing students?

2. What did Zayd want to get like Crazy Horse?

3. Who was a beekeeper that often learned from the bees?

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

5. Ayers believes that what sets up schools as institutional forms for re-creation of specific values and norms, dispositions, and assumptions?

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