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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 is more than pieces of information, more than subject matter, more even than the disciplines?
(a) Course work.
(b) Life.
(c) School.
(d) Curriculum.

2. According to Ayers, how many Americans were incarcerated in the year 2000?
(a) 200,000.
(b) Two million.
(c) One million.
(d) 500,000.

3. How do students often meet the curriculum as suggested by Ayers?
(a) With excitiment.
(b) Upset.
(c) Happily.
(d) With indifference.

4. Who believed that "young children's thinking is concrete and immediate compared to the thinking of older children"?
(a) Abraham Maslow.
(b) Jean Piaget.
(c) Erik Erikson.
(d) Sigmund Freud.

5. What does Ayers suggest that teachers have to be if they do not want to lose their capacity for renewal and growth?
(a) Self-critical.
(b) Close-minded.
(c) Open-minded.
(d) Sensitive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ayers suggest is the fundamental message of the teacher?

2. Ayers claims that what type of school tends be mechanistic and managerial, hierarchical, and bureaucratic?

3. Which Greek God did Ayers compare outstanding teachers to?

4. Which country's children did Gellhorn write about?

5. Whose house does Ayers describe as "dominated by the kitchen"?

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