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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. Ayers believes that what sets up schools as institutional forms for re-creation of specific values and norms, dispositions, and assumptions?
(a) Towns.
(b) Societies.
(c) Cities.
(d) Villages.

2. Which country's children did Gellhorn write about?
(a) Canada.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Vietnam.
(d) United States.

3. Who documented her classroom experiences through an impressive series of books?
(a) Kevin Sweeney.
(b) Hannah Arendt.
(c) Vivian Gussin Paley.
(d) Maxine Greene.

4. Who described an astonishing process while teaching a course "The Art of Black English"?
(a) Lisa Delpit.
(b) Gilbert Ryle.
(c) June Jordan.
(d) John Holt.

5. What Shakespeare play was Ayers's brother required to teach?
(a) The Tempest.
(b) A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(c) Julius Caesar.
(d) Romeo and Juliet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which child's father was active in the civil rights movement?

2. According to Chapter 2, "Seeing the Student," what is the often underutilized source of knowledge about youngsters?

3. Who was an exemplary teacher that argued that one central organizing goal in our schools must be the creation of communities of care and compassion?

4. According to Ayers, what should the larger goal of education be?

5. What did Ayers's students do preschool through high school that was considered a class job or responsibility?

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