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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) Learning from experience.
(c) Linking consciousness to conduct.
(d) Finding allies.

2. How does Ayers feel about standardized tests?
(a) Ayers supports the use of standardized tests.
(b) Ayers has been a life-long critic of standardized testing.
(c) Ayers believes standardized tests measure students accurately.
(d) Ayers enjoys taking standardized tests.

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

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

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

6. What grade levels were standardized testing banned around the nation?
(a) 11th and 12th grade.
(b) Kindergarten- 2nd grade.
(c) 2-5 grades.
(d) Kindergarten and 1st grade.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. Ayers suggests that _____________ tears down walls?
(a) Education.
(b) Good speaking.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Learning.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Zayd when the transformation of child to adult began?

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

3. How many inhabitants spoke English as the native tongue in 1988, according to Chapter 4, "Building Bridges"?

4. Who was a beekeeper that often learned from the bees?

5. What did Ayers consider people were when people, no matter how professional, were given the power to set a standard?

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