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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. According to Ayers, what consumes millions and millions of education dollars?
(a) Successful school districts.
(b) The testing industry.
(c) Textbook companies.
(d) Failing school districts.

2. 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) Learning to teach.
(b) Completing a standardized test.
(c) Going to college.
(d) Working in public.

3. What, as stated by Ayers, is a quality nurtured in solidarity with others?
(a) Faith.
(b) Courage.
(c) Love.
(d) Hope.

4. Who founded the Workshop Center at City College in New York?
(a) Joan Cenedella.
(b) Lillian Weber.
(c) Alice Jefferson.
(d) John Holt.

5. What became a helpful guide to teaching for Ayers and other teachers?
(a) The teacher taught straight from the book.
(b) Motivational speakers visited and taught.
(c) The teacher allowed the student to pursue their goals.
(d) Videos of best practice.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 8, "Beginning Again, The Current Challenge to Teach," how many learning points should classrooms have?

2. According to Ayers, what are schools?

3. Who was the teaching assistant that pitched baseballs to a student everyday?

4. How old was Chesa when Ayers began caring for him?

5. What does Ayers say "allowed us to glimpse into something of the depth of this enterprise and to unearth the intellectual and ethical implications"?

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