View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Ayers states that what type of teacher engages youngsters, interacted with them, and drew energy from students?
(a) Exciting teachers.
(b) Outstanding teachers.
(c) High school teachers.
(d) Lousy teachers.

7. Who argued that good teachers incorporated all kinds of instructional strategies and are vigilant for "what works"?
(a) June Jordan.
(b) John Holt.
(c) Lisa Delpit.
(d) Gilbert Ryle.

8. What did Ayers take away from a seven year old in the lunch room at P.S. 269?
(a) Scissors.
(b) A gun.
(c) A knife.
(d) A metal pipe.

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

10. What, as suggested by Ayers, is a matter of solidarity between subjects and human beings?
(a) Learning from experience.
(b) Finding allies.
(c) Linking consciousness to conduct.
(d) Friendship.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who assigns numbers to textbooks linking books to "grade-level"?

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

4. What does Ayers suggest that teachers have to be if they do not want to lose their capacity for renewal and growth?

5. Who believed that "human beings spent their lives weaving webs of significance"?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 421 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample