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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is a great motivator for student ceremonies according to Chapter 4, "Building Bridges"?
(a) The parents.
(b) The teacher.
(c) The other students.
(d) The audience.

3. 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.

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

5. What is an important window into a child and an essential part of any bridge's blueprint suggested by Ayers?
(a) Culture.
(b) Values.
(c) Customs.
(d) Family.

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

7. 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.

8. What is a fixed and unvarying oversimplified belief that carries negative undercurrents?
(a) Cultural stereotypes.
(b) Prejudice.
(c) Regional prejudice.
(d) Regional stereotype.

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

10. How many intercom interruptions occurred in the first four hours at P.S. 269?
(a) Seven.
(b) Six.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

11. 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) Life.
(d) School.

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

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

14. Who was critically injured in a mountain climbing accident and struggled to walk?
(a) Andrew.
(b) John.
(c) David.
(d) Malik.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do many teachers, according to Ayers, keep in a file cabinet or shelf that became part of a "museum"?

2. What city is La Escuela Fratney located?

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

4. Which group of people are naturally curious about their world they inhabit?

5. In Chapter 5, "Liberating the Curriculum," which college was referenced in a conversation Zelma participated in?

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