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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What object did Ayers compare teaching to in Chapter 1, "Beginning: The Challenge of Teaching"?
(a) A can.
(b) A house.
(c) A quilt.
(d) A car.

2. 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.

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

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

5. According to Ayers, what is in charge at the schools that limited individuality?
(a) The building
(b) The teacher.
(c) The principal.
(d) The schedule.

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

7. In which publication did Martha Gellhorn write a piece about loving our children?
(a) Ladies Home Journal.
(b) Redbook.
(c) Time.
(d) Life.

8. What type of music was played at the detention center during work time?
(a) Rap music.
(b) Rock music.
(c) Country music.
(d) Classical music.

9. Compared to 0 dollars spent on school construction, how much did Illinois spend on prison construction in 1999?
(a) $200 million.
(b) 2 million.
(c) $400 million.
(d) 4 million.

10. 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 willingness to embrace the new.
(b) The problems that plagued education.
(c) The ongoing conversation about teaching.
(d) A new focus.

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

12. 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 students one on one.
(d) Teach great lessons.

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

14. 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) Pat Carini.
(c) Eleanor Duckworth.
(d) Mara Sapon-Shevin.

15. Who was Chesa's teacher that admired Chesa's strengths instead of focusing on his weaknesses?
(a) Maxine Greene.
(b) Nel Noddings.
(c) Hannah Arendt.
(d) Kevin Sweeney.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What color did Darlene "spy"?

3. According to Ayers, what is built when there is an engaged and active citizenry?

4. Whose house does Ayers say "invited one to pray"?

5. When To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher was written, what percentage of American children awoke everyday in poverty?

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