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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Ayers, it is important for all teachers to be what?
(a) Teacher-centered.
(b) Fair.
(c) School Centered.
(d) Student-centered.

2. What model is curriculum built on based on Ayers's research?
(a) The student-centered model.
(b) The teacher-centered model.
(c) The deficit model.
(d) The surplus model.

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

4. What kind of teachers did Ayers suggest were needed now more than ever?
(a) Kind teachers.
(b) Tired teachers.
(c) Crusading teachers.
(d) Experienced teachers.

5. According to Ayers, what were many of Ayers's students when he began teaching?
(a) Culturally deprived.
(b) At Risk.
(c) Barbarians.
(d) Savages.

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

7. 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?
(a) Jose Vega.
(b) Mara Sapon-Shevin.
(c) Pat Carini.
(d) Eleanor Duckworth.

8. Who asked how race relations were going in Chicago?
(a) Irene.
(b) Jose.
(c) Duke.
(d) Elaine.

9. Ayers suggests that who "resisted the idea that there is some ideal child with whom they would be brilliant; they must reject the idea of social circumstance"?
(a) Principals.
(b) Administrators.
(c) Parents.
(d) Teachers.

10. What does Ayers say followed Jose around like a shadow?
(a) Job loss.
(b) School failure.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Violence.

11. What was one of the goals of the Prospect School?
(a) Supported teacher's efforts to create a learning culture.
(b) Less structured curriculum.
(c) Supported students rights.
(d) Higher pay for teachers.

12. What does Ayers say is required to teach from a solid base of knowing students?
(a) Patience.
(b) Support.
(c) Hope.
(d) Vision.

13. What does Ayers identify as a time of invention, discovery, and surprise?
(a) School.
(b) Daycare.
(c) Adulthood.
(d) Childhood.

14. What does Ayers say "allowed us to glimpse into something of the depth of this enterprise and to unearth the intellectual and ethical implications"?
(a) The problems that plagued education.
(b) The willingness to embrace the new.
(c) The ongoing conversation about teaching.
(d) A new focus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Ayers classroom, what dominated the window sills and counter tops?

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

3. What exists less than a half-mile from the University of Illinois-Chicago?

4. In the year 2000, how many children did not have health insurance?

5. In Chapter 1, "Beginning: The Challenge of Teaching," what did John struggle with?

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