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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. In Chapter 7, "Mystery of Teaching," who told a remarkable story of learning to read as a subversive activity?
(a) Addams.
(b) Rilke.
(c) Dewey.
(d) Douglass.

2. How many intercom interruptions occurred in the first four hours at P.S. 269?
(a) Seven.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Six.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ayers suggest should be the center of knowledge?

2. What do many teachers, according to Ayers, keep in a file cabinet or shelf that became part of a "museum"?

3. According to Ayers, what does good teaching demand?

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

5. Who argued that the basic model of curriculum and teaching was "not just mistaken and impossible, but bad in the sense of morally wrong"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some ways that teachers can keep track of student achievement according to Ayers?

2. According to Ayers, what does culture include?

3. Describe the corner Ayers's classroom where students would have had access to materials regarding "coming of age."

4. What does Ayers believe the fundamental curriculum question is?

5. How did Ayers describe Zayd's pursuing of his "coming of age" ceremony?

6. What can't standardized tests measure?

7. What did Ayers mean when he linked "consciousness to conduct"?

8. According to Ayers, what are good schools?

9. In Chapter 7, "The Mystery of Teaching," what problems occurred when teachers tried to implement a new idea every day?

10. Describe Ayers's quest in teaching.

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