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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Beginning Again, The Current Challenge to Teach.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What requires a serious and sustained engagement with the enterprise and an intense focus on the lives of children as suggested in Chapter 8, "Beginning Again, The Current Challenge to Teach"?
(a) Working in public.
(b) Completing a standardized test.
(c) Learning to teach.
(d) Going to college.

2. What does Ayers identify as a time of invention, discovery, and surprise?
(a) Daycare.
(b) School.
(c) Adulthood.
(d) Childhood.

3. Who argued that "teachers can be aided in the difficult matter of moral choice if they can adopt an ethic of caring"?
(a) Nel Noddings.
(b) William Ayers.
(c) Maxine Greene.
(d) Hannah Arendt.

4. Who was the subject used in a study by Davide Carroll?
(a) Chesa.
(b) Sid.
(c) Pat.
(d) Jose.

5. According to Ayers, what are schools?
(a) Learning factories.
(b) Large places.
(c) Small places.
(d) Porous places.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, as suggested by Ayers, is a matter of solidarity between subjects and human beings?

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

3. In the year 2000, how many children did not have health insurance?

4. How does Ayers feel about standardized tests?

5. What Shakespeare play was Ayers's brother required to teach?

(see the answer key)

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