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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. Pestalozzi came from which country?
(a) Lichtenstein.
(b) Romania.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) Italy.

2. When did Horace Mann live?
(a) 1766-1829.
(b) 1786-1839.
(c) 1796-1859.
(d) 1776-1849.

3. What was the name of the economist that inspired classic liberalism?
(a) Adams.
(b) Jones.
(c) Smith.
(d) Mitchell.

4. In which year did Montessori die?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1950.

5. In which year was Montessori born?
(a) 1885.
(b) 1875.
(c) 1880
(d) 1870.

Short Answer Questions

1. Montessori opened her first school in which year?

2. In which year did Paulo Freire die?

3. Who was the Utopian Theorist and Communitarian Educator?

4. Du Bois used a term "talented _____" to denote intellectually gifted elite of a race.

5. Traditional educators and the churches defended _______ as the core of necessary knowledge.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi's work centered on educating the heart and senses?

2. How did Addams develop her curriculum for Hull House? What was the basis of the curriculum?

3. When did Mary Wollstonecraft live? What major events occurred during this time that greatly affected Mary Wollstonecraft as a woman?

4. What was Jean-Jacques Rousseau's basic education history?

5. When did Mohandas Gandhi live? What was the landscape of the Indian government at that time?

6. When did Thomas Jefferson live? What was his role in early American education?

7. When did John Dewey live? How were Dewey's views shaped and by which events of the time?

8. What was the basic educational background of Maria Montessori?

9. When did Jean-Jacques Rousseau live? What major events occurred during Jean-Jacques Rousseau's lifetime? How were educational ideas changed?

10. When did the first Montessori school open? What was its mission statement?

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