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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 group did Mike join after leaving UCLA?
(a) Teacher Corps.
(b) UCLA Literacy Group.
(c) Veterans Program.
(d) Teacher Program.

2. What was the title of the article in The Nation in 1896?
(a) "Illiteracy in America."
(b) "The Illiteracy of American Boys."
(c) "American Illiteracy."
(d) "The Growing Illiteracy of American Boys."

3. Where were Mike and his team sent?
(a) Juarez.
(b) L.A.
(c) El Monte.
(d) Tijuana.

4. How many days a week did Mike and his team work in the schools?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

5. How many hours a day did Mike spend at the UCLA library?
(a) 8.
(b) 4.
(c) 10.
(d) 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Mike's mother come to America?

2. What did Mike say first interested him in writing?

3. Who was the progressive theologian that Mike mentioned?

4. How many books were required reading for UCLA's Modern American Literature course?

5. In college, what subject did Mike find hard to study?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Mike say he learned from the four men who gave him a good liberal education?

2. What did Mike say were primary and secondary qualities?

3. How did Mike describe the Goddess of Grammar?

4. What did Mike mean when he said the classroom could be filled with possibility?

5. What did Mike say happened when students received extrinsic rewards?

6. In school, how did Mike defend himself against things he couldn't understand?

7. Why did Laura struggle in Remedial English?

8. How did Rosalie guide Mike in interacting with his students in El Monte?

9. Why did Mike say that he wrote "Lives on the Boundary"?

10. How did Mike feel about the final assignment in Professor Gullans' class?

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