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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the average annual cost to house an inmate in 1999?
(a) $10,000.
(b) $50,000.
(c) $30,000.
(d) $20,000.

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

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

4. Which child's father was active in the civil rights movement?
(a) Duke's father.
(b) Darlene's father.
(c) Jose's father.
(d) Kelyn's father.

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

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

7. What does Ayers say that people must have to promote change in the educational system?
(a) Experience.
(b) A strong commitment.
(c) Parental support.
(d) A revolution.

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

9. What do kids see that school is linked by more than anything else?
(a) By age.
(b) By development.
(c) By sex.
(d) By subject.

10. According to Ayers, what is the mentality of schools?
(a) Profit-driven.
(b) Student-centered.
(c) Administration centered.
(d) Teacher centered.

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

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

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

14. Ayers believes that learning is what?
(a) Boring.
(b) Easy.
(c) Not linear.
(d) Hard.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What became a helpful guide to teaching for Ayers and other teachers?

2. According to Chapter 2, "Seeing the Student," how did a staff review session end?

3. What percentage of African American boys does Ayers say will spend some time in prison?

4. What did Ayers's space have "lots and lots" of?

5. 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"?

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