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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, as suggested by Ayers, is a matter of solidarity between subjects and human beings?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Finding allies.
(c) Linking consciousness to conduct.
(d) Learning from experience.

2. What do educators become when "talk turned to skills" according to Ayers?
(a) Close-minded.
(b) Simple-minded.
(c) Supportive.
(d) Open-minded.

3. Who was a beekeeper that often learned from the bees?
(a) Sue Hubbell.
(b) Alice Jefferson.
(c) John Holt.
(d) Lillian Weber.

4. What was the most recent standardized test Ayers took?
(a) ACT.
(b) PSAE.
(c) Basic Skills Test.
(d) GRE.

5. Ayers states that what type of teacher engages youngsters, interacted with them, and drew energy from students?
(a) High school teachers.
(b) Exciting teachers.
(c) Lousy teachers.
(d) Outstanding teachers.

6. Who founded the Hull House?
(a) Douglass.
(b) Dewey.
(c) Rilke.
(d) Addams.

7. According to Ayers, what does good teaching demand?
(a) Perseverance.
(b) Love.
(c) Compromise.
(d) Humility.

8. According to Ayers, what are standardized tests?
(a) A great measurement tool.
(b) Bad.
(c) Good.
(d) Excellent.

9. Who argued that the basic model of curriculum and teaching was "not just mistaken and impossible, but bad in the sense of morally wrong"?
(a) Gilbert Ryle.
(b) Denise Price.
(c) June Jordan.
(d) John Holt.

10. In Alex Haley's writing, whose coming of age ceremony did he record?
(a) Crazy Horse.
(b) Malik.
(c) Jose.
(d) Kunta Kinte.

11. What does great teaching demand according to Ayers?
(a) Unique perspectives.
(b) An openness to standardized testing.
(c) An openness to something new.
(d) An close-mind.

12. What level of teachers needed to visit and revisit the regular curriculum question regularly?
(a) College teachers.
(b) Elementary school teachers.
(c) High school teachers.
(d) Middle school teachers.

13. What city is La Escuela Fratney located?
(a) Detroit, Michigan.
(b) Greenbay, Wisconsin.
(c) Flint, Michigan.
(d) Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

14. As suggested in Chapter 6, "Keeping Track," who requires standardized tests to comply with state law?
(a) Teachers.
(b) School district leaders.
(c) Parents.
(d) Principals.

15. What is a sophisticated and complex cognitive process as suggested in Chapter 5, "Liberating the Curriculum"?
(a) Reading.
(b) Learning.
(c) Writing.
(d) Teaching.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ayers in Chapter 4, "Building Bridges," what was the "work of life"?

2. What is a fixed and unvarying oversimplified belief that carries negative undercurrents?

3. What grade levels were standardized testing banned around the nation?

4. Ayers believes that what is more than pieces of information, more than subject matter, more even than the disciplines?

5. Which score from a sample group was the norm as suggested by Ayers?

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