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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who spent most of the summer designing a "core study" for students?
(a) Alice Jefferson.
(b) Joan Cenedella.
(c) Mara Sapon-Shevin.
(d) John Holt.

2. What do many teachers, according to Ayers, keep in a file cabinet or shelf that became part of a "museum"?
(a) Student work.
(b) Anecdotal records.
(c) Tape recordings.
(d) Checklists.

3. What allows teachers to see what students are up to while asking them to do the work themselves?
(a) Standardized testing.
(b) Classroom practice work.
(c) Project-based learning.
(d) Homework.

4. 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) Denise Price.
(b) June Jordan.
(c) John Holt.
(d) Gilbert Ryle.

5. How many inhabitants spoke English as the native tongue in 1988, according to Chapter 4, "Building Bridges"?
(a) 33,746,000
(b) 333,000,000
(c) 3,746,000
(d) 333,746,000

6. Ayers points out that __________________________________ is the most powerful predictor of how a child will do on a test.
(a) School funding.
(b) Past education experiences.
(c) Educational background of the parents.
(d) Educational background of the teachers.

7. What did Ayers suggest should be the center of knowledge?
(a) Homework.
(b) Standardized tests.
(c) Presentations.
(d) The child and the classroom.

8. Ayers stated that ________________________ is more dogmatic and insistent than any religion or political ideology.
(a) Teaching.
(b) Choosing.
(c) Common sense.
(d) Learning.

9. According to Ayers in Chapter 4, "Building Bridges," what was the "work of life"?
(a) Choosing.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Learning.
(d) Teaching.

10. Who assigns numbers to textbooks linking books to "grade-level"?
(a) School Administrators.
(b) Textbook writers.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Textbook publishers.

11. What did Ayers build that contained literature of diversity and inclusion?
(a) A labratory.
(b) An Anti-bias classroom.
(c) An Anti-bias library.
(d) A bias library.

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

13. Ayers believes that what is more than pieces of information, more than subject matter, more even than the disciplines?
(a) Curriculum.
(b) Life.
(c) School.
(d) Course work.

14. According to Ayers, what consumes millions and millions of education dollars?
(a) Successful school districts.
(b) Failing school districts.
(c) Textbook companies.
(d) The testing industry.

15. Ayers said that someone is required to lay the first plank for what?
(a) Bridge-building.
(b) Learning.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Communication.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Alex Haley's writing, whose coming of age ceremony did he record?

2. Who brought the culture of the Sioux people to life for Zayd?

3. What, as suggested by Ayers, is a matter of solidarity between subjects and human beings?

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

5. Who founded the Hull House?

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