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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a set of techniques and directions to be mastered discussed in Chapter 7, "The Mystery of Teaching"?
(a) Singing.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Learning.
(d) Acting.

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

3. What type of questions make up the majority of the standardized test?
(a) Essay questions.
(b) Multiple choice questions.
(c) Matching.
(d) Short answer questions.

4. Who believed that "human beings spent their lives weaving webs of significance"?
(a) June Jordan.
(b) Gomer Pyle.
(c) Lisa Delpit.
(d) Gilbert Ryle.

5. Which culture required that each boy kill a lion and be circumcised in order to become a man?
(a) Sioux.
(b) African.
(c) Aborigini.
(d) Zulu.

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

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

8. 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) Outstanding teachers.
(d) Lousy teachers.

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

10. Who noted that experience and education were not the same thing?
(a) Stanislavsky.
(b) Dewey.
(c) Addams.
(d) Rilke.

11. Who founded the Workshop Center at City College in New York?
(a) Alice Jefferson.
(b) Lillian Weber.
(c) John Holt.
(d) Joan Cenedella.

12. According to Ayers, what are schools?
(a) Large places.
(b) Learning factories.
(c) Small places.
(d) Porous places.

13. Who argued that standardized achievement tests are problematic due to their "exaggerated importance"?
(a) John Holt.
(b) Lillian Weber.
(c) Herb Zimiles.
(d) William Ayers.

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

15. In Chapter 6, "Keeping Track," what is the process of narrowing, punishing, and controlling from the outside that too often passed for assessment?
(a) Standardized.
(b) Factory-produced.
(c) Assessed.
(d) Universalized.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ayers suggests that what is built on a base of knowledge about students?

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

3. Who argued that the basic model of curriculum and teaching was "not just mistaken and impossible, but bad in the sense of morally wrong"?

4. What type of school grew out of the civil rights struggle?

5. What did Zayd want to get like Crazy Horse?

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