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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ayers suggests that what happens when teacher's begin to value a child's opinions and experiences?
(a) Children became more shy.
(b) Children became close-minded.
(c) Children disobeyed authority figures.
(d) Children began to think more openly.

2. In Ayers preschool classroom, which area felt "cozy and home-like"?
(a) The store.
(b) The loft where the blocks were stored.
(c) The hospital.
(d) The dress-up area.

3. According to Ayers, what tells us what to do?
(a) Our teachers.
(b) Our environments.
(c) Our principals.
(d) Our parents.

4. What did Ayers's students do preschool through high school that was considered a class job or responsibility?
(a) Students drew.
(b) Students napped.
(c) Students cooked.
(d) Students read.

5. How old was Chesa when Ayers began caring for him?
(a) 4 years old.
(b) 10 years old.
(c) 14 years old.
(d) 14 months old.

6. When Ayers took children to the airport concourse, what did they do?
(a) The children watched people.
(b) The children sat down.
(c) The children ran.
(d) The children ate.

7. According to Ayers, what should the larger goal of education be?
(a) Complete overall of educational system.
(b) Adequate education for 75% of children.
(c) Adequate education for all children.
(d) Increased teacher pay.

8. What did Ayers's space have "lots and lots" of?
(a) Books.
(b) Boxes.
(c) Clothes.
(d) Animals.

9. What was the name of the group of housing activists who constructed simple and livable structures for the homeless?
(a) Habitat for Humanity.
(b) Mad Housers of Chicago.
(c) Helping Hands of Chicago.
(d) Housing Agency of Chicago.

10. What exists less than a half-mile from the University of Illinois-Chicago?
(a) A shanty town.
(b) Cabrini Green.
(c) A habitat house.
(d) An old church.

11. According to Ayers, what is the goal when kids become the "crowd or herd"?
(a) Create the "factory" student.
(b) Teach students one on one.
(c) To manage the mob.
(d) Teach great lessons.

12. Who underlined the importance of identity and broadening group affiliation with adolescents?
(a) Sigmund Freud.
(b) Jean Piaget.
(c) Erik Erikson.
(d) Abraham Maslow.

13. According to Ayers, what is the educational system?
(a) A failure.
(b) An adequate system.
(c) A success.
(d) An equal system.

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

15. Who was the subject used in a study by Davide Carroll?
(a) Sid.
(b) Pat.
(c) Jose.
(d) Chesa.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which publication did Martha Gellhorn write a piece about loving our children?

2. What does Ayers cite is the main reason students drop out?

3. What did Ayers say died at an early age for too many young Americans?

4. Ayers believed that what is the strongest source of knowledge about a student?

5. Who asked how race relations were going in Chicago?

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