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

2. Who founded the Hull House?
(a) Addams.
(b) Dewey.
(c) Rilke.
(d) Douglass.

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

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

5. Who was a veteran teacher that decided each summer to do a sustained study on something the teacher did not understand?
(a) Mara Sapon-Shevin.
(b) John Holt.
(c) Joan Cenedella.
(d) Alice Jefferson.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many inhabitants spoke English as the native tongue in 1988, according to Chapter 4, "Building Bridges"?

2. What level of teachers needed to visit and revisit the regular curriculum question regularly?

3. In Chapter 7, "The Mystery of Teaching," who suggested to "go into yourself"?

4. What type of questions make up the majority of the standardized test?

5. What, as suggested by Ayers, is a matter of solidarity between subjects and human beings?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What were Ayers's feelings during the Illinois Teachers Basic Skills Test?

3. According to Ayers, what does culture include?

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

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

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

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

8. How does Ayers suggest people meet the problem of guidelines and mandates?

9. In Chapter 7, "The Mystery of Teaching," describe the students at Imani School.

10. Describe Ayers's quest in teaching.

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