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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what publication did Bernardina and Zayd read coverage of the Central Park rape?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) The Washington Post.
(c) The Chicago Tribune.
(d) The Chicago Sun Times.

3. 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) Joan Cenedella.
(c) Alice Jefferson.
(d) John Holt.

4. Who argued that the basic model of curriculum and teaching was "not just mistaken and impossible, but bad in the sense of morally wrong"?
(a) Gilbert Ryle.
(b) June Jordan.
(c) Denise Price.
(d) John Holt.

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

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

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

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

9. As suggested in Chapter 6, "Keeping Track," who requires standardized tests to comply with state law?
(a) Teachers.
(b) School district leaders.
(c) Principals.
(d) Parents.

10. What does Ayers suggest is a highly personal and an intensely intimate encounter?
(a) Teaching.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Learning.
(d) Acting.

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

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

13. Who founded the Hull House?
(a) Douglass.
(b) Rilke.
(c) Dewey.
(d) Addams.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What level of teachers needed to visit and revisit the regular curriculum question regularly?

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

3. What city is La Escuela Fratney located?

4. Who brought the culture of the Sioux people to life for Zayd?

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

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