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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. How did deficiencies make Ayers feel?
(a) Ready for the challenge of learning.
(b) Inadequate.
(c) Happy.
(d) Fine.

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

3. What type of school grew out of the civil rights struggle?
(a) SNCC Schools.
(b) Black Power Schools.
(c) Peace Schools.
(d) Freedom Schools.

4. Ayers suggests that _____________ tears down walls?
(a) Education.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Learning.
(d) Good speaking.

5. Who must see themselves as seekers and aspirants according to Ayers?
(a) Students.
(b) Principals.
(c) Parents.
(d) Teachers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who believed that "human beings spent their lives weaving webs of significance"?

2. What animal did the children observe outside a Chicago steel plant?

3. Who was a veteran teacher that decided each summer to do a sustained study on something the teacher did not understand?

4. What did Duke bring to the attention of the other children about Mr. Ayers?

5. Who was Chesa's teacher that admired Chesa's strengths instead of focusing on his weaknesses?

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