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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

4. Who noted that experience and education were not the same thing?
(a) Dewey.
(b) Addams.
(c) Rilke.
(d) Stanislavsky.

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

6. How old was Zayd when the transformation of child to adult began?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Thirteen.
(d) Ten.

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

8. Which score from a sample group was the norm as suggested by Ayers?
(a) The middle score divided by 2.
(b) The lowest score.
(c) The highest score.
(d) The middle score.

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

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

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

12. Who spent most of the summer designing a "core study" for students?
(a) Alice Jefferson.
(b) John Holt.
(c) Joan Cenedella.
(d) Mara Sapon-Shevin.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Ayers said that someone is required to lay the first plank for what?

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

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

5. Ayers suggests that _____________ tears down walls?

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