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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which group of people are naturally curious about their world they inhabit?
(a) Administrators.
(b) Children.
(c) Parents.
(d) Teachers.

2. How old was Zayd when the transformation of child to adult began?
(a) Thirteen.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Ten.

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

4. Who was a veteran teacher that decided each summer to do a sustained study on something the teacher did not understand?
(a) Mara Sapon-Shevin.
(b) John Holt.
(c) Alice Jefferson.
(d) Joan Cenedella.

5. Who was one of William Ayers mentors?
(a) Gilbert Ryle.
(b) John Holt.
(c) Denise Price.
(d) June Jordan.

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

7. How do students often meet the curriculum as suggested by Ayers?
(a) With indifference.
(b) With excitiment.
(c) Upset.
(d) Happily.

8. According to Ayers, what are tests surrounded by?
(a) Rituals.
(b) Extreme colored borders.
(c) Untrue statements.
(d) Stereotyping.

9. Who must be autobiographers and be authentic suggested by Ayers?
(a) Actors.
(b) Administrators.
(c) Parents.
(d) Teachers.

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

11. What did Ayers state is required for "greatness in teaching"?
(a) A great teacher trainer.
(b) Learning.
(c) An encounter with autobiography.
(d) A developed curriculum.

12. What type of school grew out of the civil rights struggle?
(a) SNCC Schools.
(b) Black Power Schools.
(c) Peace Schools.
(d) Freedom Schools.

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

14. Who described an astonishing process while teaching a course "The Art of Black English"?
(a) June Jordan.
(b) John Holt.
(c) Lisa Delpit.
(d) Gilbert Ryle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ayers suggest is a highly personal and an intensely intimate encounter?

2. Who noted that experience and education were not the same thing?

3. What is the root word for evaluation discussed in Chapter 6, "Keeping Track"?

4. In Chapter 7, "The Mystery of Teaching," who suggested to "go into yourself"?

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

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