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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who must be autobiographers and be authentic suggested by Ayers?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Administrators.
(c) Actors.
(d) Parents.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is the root word for evaluation discussed in Chapter 6, "Keeping Track"?
(a) Value.
(b) Test.
(c) Eval.
(d) Assessment.

9. 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) June Jordan.
(b) John Holt.
(c) Denise Price.
(d) Gilbert Ryle.

10. What does great teaching demand according to Ayers?
(a) Unique perspectives.
(b) An openness to standardized testing.
(c) An openness to something new.
(d) An close-mind.

11. 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) Close-minded.
(c) Open-minded.
(d) Self-critical.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What allows teachers to see what students are up to while asking them to do the work themselves?

2. What is a sophisticated and complex cognitive process as suggested in Chapter 5, "Liberating the Curriculum"?

3. What is a fixed and unvarying oversimplified belief that carries negative undercurrents?

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

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

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