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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. Who created an impressive archive and research center where they have collected the work of hundreds of children over many years?
(a) Pat Carini.
(b) William Ayers.
(c) Maxine Greene.
(d) Kevin Sweeney.

2. Ayers suggests that what happens when teacher's begin to value a child's opinions and experiences?
(a) Children disobeyed authority figures.
(b) Children became close-minded.
(c) Children became more shy.
(d) Children began to think more openly.

3. What object did Ayers compare teaching to in Chapter 1, "Beginning: The Challenge of Teaching"?
(a) A car.
(b) A house.
(c) A quilt.
(d) A can.

4. Who was an exemplary teacher that argued that one central organizing goal in our schools must be the creation of communities of care and compassion?
(a) Eleanor Duckworth.
(b) Mara Sapon-Shevin.
(c) Pat Carini.
(d) Jose Vega.

5. According to Chapter 2, "Seeing the Student," what is the often underutilized source of knowledge about youngsters?
(a) Parents.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Doctors.
(d) The child.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1, "Beginning: The Challenge of Teaching," what did John struggle with?

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

3. Which child's father was active in the civil rights movement?

4. Who believed that "Education was the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume the responsibility for it"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What reasons does Ayers give not to teach?

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

3. According to Ayers, what does learning with students enact and demonstrate?

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

5. Ayers discusses a link between democracy and education. What is the link between democracy and education?

6. How did Ayers build a laboratory for discovery and surprise?

7. What are Ayers feelings about community?

8. What did Ayers say the first step of a staff review required?

9. What pains does Ayers say teachers usually face?

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

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