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

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

3. What level of teachers needed to visit and revisit the regular curriculum question regularly?
(a) College teachers.
(b) High school teachers.
(c) Elementary school teachers.
(d) Middle school teachers.

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

5. What do many teachers, according to Ayers, keep in a file cabinet or shelf that became part of a "museum"?
(a) Checklists.
(b) Student work.
(c) Tape recordings.
(d) Anecdotal records.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Alex Haley's writing, whose coming of age ceremony did he record?

2. What was the center of the approach used at Prospect School?

3. What high school did Ayers's brother teach English?

4. According to Ayers, what is the educational system?

5. What does Ayers suggest is a highly personal and an intensely intimate encounter?

(see the answer key)

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