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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. What do many teachers, according to Ayers, keep in a file cabinet or shelf that became part of a "museum"?
(a) Tape recordings.
(b) Checklists.
(c) Student work.
(d) Anecdotal records.

2. What does Ayers suggest is a highly personal and an intensely intimate encounter?
(a) Acting.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Learning.
(d) Teaching.

3. Who spent most of the summer designing a "core study" for students?
(a) Joan Cenedella.
(b) Alice Jefferson.
(c) Mara Sapon-Shevin.
(d) John Holt.

4. What did Duke bring to the attention of the other children about Mr. Ayers?
(a) Mr. Ayers's nose.
(b) Mr. Ayers's mouth.
(c) Mr. Ayers's hands.
(d) Mr. Ayers's eyes.

5. Ayers claims that what type of school tends be mechanistic and managerial, hierarchical, and bureaucratic?
(a) Ideal schools.
(b) Student-centered schools.
(c) Big schools.
(d) Small schools.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a great motivator for student ceremonies according to Chapter 4, "Building Bridges"?

2. What did Zayd want to get like Crazy Horse?

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

4. In Ayers preschool classroom, which area felt "cozy and home-like"?

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

(see the answer key)

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