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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 say followed Jose around like a shadow?
(a) Drugs.
(b) School failure.
(c) Job loss.
(d) Violence.
2. According to Ayers, what were many of Ayers's students when he began teaching?
(a) Culturally deprived.
(b) Savages.
(c) At Risk.
(d) Barbarians.
3. What exists less than a half-mile from the University of Illinois-Chicago?
(a) A shanty town.
(b) A habitat house.
(c) An old church.
(d) Cabrini Green.
4. When To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher was written, what percentage of American children awoke everyday in poverty?
(a) 50% of American children awoke everyday in poverty.
(b) 25% of American children awoke everyday in poverty.
(c) 33% of American children awoke everyday in poverty.
(d) 22% of American children awoke everyday in poverty.
5. In the year 2000, how many children did not have health insurance?
(a) 11 million children did not have health insurance.
(b) 40 million children did not have health insurance.
(c) 20 million children did not have health insurance.
(d) 1 million children did not have health insurance.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Ayers's students do preschool through high school that was considered a class job or responsibility?
2. What does Ayers say is required to teach from a solid base of knowing students?
3. Who argued that "the teacher who wishes to be more functionary cannot escape the value problem or the difficult matter of moral choice"?
4. What color did Darlene "spy"?
5. According to Ayers, what is the educational system?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why are people called to teaching, according to Ayers?
2. Ayers discusses a link between democracy and education. What is the link between democracy and education?
3. In Chapter 1, "Beginning, The Challenge of Teaching," how did Jakob feel after learning to read?
4. What did Carolyn Jackson suggest about what it means to be black in America?
5. In Chapter 2, "Seeing the Student," describe the treasure hunt.
6. In Chapter 3, "Creating an Environment for Learning," describe Harriet and Efrem's house.
7. What reasons does Ayers give not to teach?
8. Why did Aaron have trouble focusing as suggested by Ayers in Chapter 2, "Seeing the Student"?
9. According to Ayers, how do students describe teachers?
10. As stated by Ayers, why are people drawn to the teaching profession?
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