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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. Who must be autobiographers and be authentic suggested by Ayers?
(a) Actors.
(b) Administrators.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Parents.

2. Who believed that "Education was the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume the responsibility for it"?
(a) Nel Noddings.
(b) William Ayers.
(c) Hannah Arendt.
(d) Maxine Greene.

3. What did Ayers say "cramped choices and strangled life chances for the children of the poor"?
(a) Schools.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Parents.
(d) Inequalities.

4. In Chapter 7, "The Mystery of Teaching," who suggested to "go into yourself"?
(a) Addams.
(b) Stanislavsky.
(c) Rilke.
(d) Dewey.

5. Whose house does Ayers describe as "dominated by the kitchen"?
(a) BJ's house.
(b) Malcolm and Sue's house.
(c) Coretta's house.
(d) Harriet and Efrem's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a fixed and unvarying oversimplified belief that carries negative undercurrents?

2. What does Ayers suggest that teachers have to be if they do not want to lose their capacity for renewal and growth?

3. Ayers believes that what is an intellectual and ethical work?

4. What does Ayers cite is the main reason students drop out?

5. What did Ayers compare teaching to at the end of his book?

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