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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who argued that as soon as an actor believed she or he was "master of the part, rigor mortis is already set in"?
(a) Dewey.
(b) Rilke.
(c) Jane Addams.
(d) Stanislavsky.

4. What did Ayers say could be life-saving in the teaching experience?
(a) Linking consciousness to conduct.
(b) Learn from experience.
(c) Finding allies.
(d) Friendship.

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

10. What does Ayers suggest that teachers have to be if they do not want to lose their capacity for renewal and growth?
(a) Open-minded.
(b) Sensitive.
(c) Close-minded.
(d) Self-critical.

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

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

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

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

15. In Chapter 5, "Liberating the Curriculum," which college was referenced in a conversation Zelma participated in?
(a) Duke.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Northwestern.
(d) Harvard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who must be autobiographers and be authentic suggested by Ayers?

2. As suggested in Chapter 6, "Keeping Track," who requires standardized tests to comply with state law?

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

4. What is a great motivator for student ceremonies according to Chapter 4, "Building Bridges"?

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

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