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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Housing Agency of Chicago.
(d) Helping Hands of Chicago.

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

4. What is the focus of Ayers' book To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, Second Edition?
(a) The lives of the incarcerated.
(b) The lives of children.
(c) The lives of administrators.
(d) The lives of teachers.

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

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

7. Who believed that "Education was the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume the responsibility for it"?
(a) Hannah Arendt.
(b) William Ayers.
(c) Maxine Greene.
(d) Nel Noddings.

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

9. Who argued that "teachers can be aided in the difficult matter of moral choice if they can adopt an ethic of caring"?
(a) Hannah Arendt.
(b) Nel Noddings.
(c) William Ayers.
(d) Maxine Greene.

10. Who argued that "the teacher who wishes to be more functionary cannot escape the value problem or the difficult matter of moral choice"?
(a) Hannah Arendt.
(b) Nel Noddings.
(c) Maxine Greene.
(d) William Ayers.

11. Whose house always filled Ayers with tranquility?
(a) Harriet and Efrem's house.
(b) BJ's House.
(c) Malcolm and Sue's house.
(d) Coretta's house.

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

13. According to Chapter 2, "Seeing the Student," how did a staff review session end?
(a) With critical discussion.
(b) With a decision.
(c) In an abrupt manner.
(d) Provided teachers with a deeper understanding.

14. What high school did Ayers's brother teach English?
(a) Los Angeles High School.
(b) North Campton High School.
(c) Bismarck High School.
(d) Berkeley High School.

15. How did deficiencies make Ayers feel?
(a) Inadequate.
(b) Fine.
(c) Ready for the challenge of learning.
(d) Happy.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ayers, what is the mentality of schools?

2. What type of school does Ayers say points toward students at the center of the education enterprise?

3. Who underlined the importance of identity and broadening group affiliation with adolescents?

4. According to Ayers, what is in charge at the schools that limited individuality?

5. What kind of teachers did Ayers suggest were needed now more than ever?

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