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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which culture required that each boy kill a lion and be circumcised in order to become a man?
(a) African.
(b) Aborigini.
(c) Sioux.
(d) Zulu.

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

4. What level of teachers needed to visit and revisit the regular curriculum question regularly?
(a) College teachers.
(b) Middle school teachers.
(c) High school teachers.
(d) Elementary school teachers.

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

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

7. Ayers stated that ________________________ is more dogmatic and insistent than any religion or political ideology.
(a) Choosing.
(b) Learning.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Common sense.

8. What did Ayers build that contained literature of diversity and inclusion?
(a) An Anti-bias classroom.
(b) A bias library.
(c) An Anti-bias library.
(d) A labratory.

9. 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.

10. Ayers suggests that what is built on a base of knowledge about students?
(a) Outstanding parents.
(b) Outstanding learning.
(c) Outstanding schools.
(d) Outstanding teaching.

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) School.
(d) Life.

12. What was the most recent standardized test Ayers took?
(a) PSAE.
(b) GRE.
(c) Basic Skills Test.
(d) ACT.

13. Who was a beekeeper that often learned from the bees?
(a) Sue Hubbell.
(b) Lillian Weber.
(c) John Holt.
(d) Alice Jefferson.

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

15. What did Ayers suggest should be the center of knowledge?
(a) The child and the classroom.
(b) Presentations.
(c) Homework.
(d) Standardized tests.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ayers feel about standardized tests?

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

3. In Chapter 7, "The Mystery of Teaching," who suggested to "go into yourself"?

4. According to Ayers, what are standardized tests?

5. In Chapter 7, "Mystery of Teaching," who told a remarkable story of learning to read as a subversive activity?

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