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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, The Mystery of Teaching.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Ayers states that what type of teacher engages youngsters, interacted with them, and drew energy from students?
(a) Lousy teachers.
(b) Exciting teachers.
(c) Outstanding teachers.
(d) High school teachers.

3. Ayers believed that ____________ integrate and give meaning to other aspects of school and curriculum, along with engaging and focusing children's energy.
(a) Videos.
(b) Portfolios.
(c) Homework.
(d) Projects.

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

5. What did Ayers's space have "lots and lots" of?
(a) Books.
(b) Animals.
(c) Boxes.
(d) Clothes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sport was Jose La Luz involved in?

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

3. Ayers claims that what type of school tends be mechanistic and managerial, hierarchical, and bureaucratic?

4. According to Ayers, what were many of Ayers's students when he began teaching?

5. What exists less than a half-mile from the University of Illinois-Chicago?

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