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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ayers state is part of the intellectual challenge of teaching, in addition to knowing students?
(a) Self-awareness.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Self-reflection.
(d) Kindness.

2. Whose house does Ayers say "invited one to pray"?
(a) BJ's house.
(b) Malcolm and Sue's house.
(c) Coretta's house.
(d) Harriet and Efrem's house.

3. What did Ayers say "cramped choices and strangled life chances for the children of the poor"?
(a) Inequalities.
(b) Schools.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Parents.

4. What do kids see that school is linked by more than anything else?
(a) By age.
(b) By subject.
(c) By development.
(d) By sex.

5. According to Ayers, what should the larger goal of education be?
(a) Adequate education for 75% of children.
(b) Increased teacher pay.
(c) Adequate education for all children.
(d) Complete overall of educational system.

Short Answer Questions

1. When To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher was written, what percentage of American children awoke everyday in poverty?

2. Who asked how race relations were going in Chicago?

3. According to Ayers, what is built when there is an engaged and active citizenry?

4. How many computers did Ayers have in the corner next to the working loom for weaving?

5. What did Ayers's space have "lots and lots" of?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Aaron have trouble focusing as suggested by Ayers in Chapter 2, "Seeing the Student"?

2. In Chapter 2, "Seeing the Student," how did Ayers describe Chesa?

3. What did Ayers say the child running in a pre-school area saw?

4. According to Ayers, how do students describe teachers?

5. In Chapter 2, "Seeing the Student," describe the treasure hunt.

6. In the classroom described in Chapter 1, "Beginning, The Challenge of Teaching," what were students expected to do in the classroom?

7. What did Carolyn Jackson suggest about what it means to be black in America?

8. Why are people called to teaching, according to Ayers?

9. What does learning require, according to Ayers's research?

10. What does Ayers say that childhood is a time for?

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