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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. How did Mike define remedial?
(a) Substandard.
(b) Average.
(c) Run of the mill.
(d) Counteractive.

2. What reading made Blanche laugh aloud when Mike was teaching literature?
(a) Austen.
(b) Jones.
(c) Chaucer.
(d) Shakespeare.

3. Why wouldn't Millie identify the word imagined?
(a) She didn't want too.
(b) She was scared of it.
(c) She couldn't understand it.
(d) She found it too difficult.

4. Who said that they wouldn't understand the logic of error?
(a) Suzanne Shaughnessy.
(b) Mina Shaughnessy.
(c) Joan Shaughnessy.
(d) Sara Shaughnessy.

5. Who wrote "Remedial Cases in Reading"?
(a) William S. Gray.
(b) Steve Gray.
(c) James Gray.
(d) John Gray.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mike say new college students had limited exposure to?

2. What did Mike discover about the men after spending two months with them?

3. What was the Spanish word for a bass guitar with six strings?

4. Where did Mike go to learn more about counseling?

5. Who did Mike say was a special kind of student?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Mike say that teachers in some neighborhoods were unable to do anything for their students?

2. What was Jerry Williams' reaction when he was told he couldn't take the final exam?

3. What did Arthur do when he went mad?

4. What did Mike believe caused Suzanne to write sentence fragments?

5. Why did Mike say educators viewed the poor as being different?

6. Why did Mike believe that the students' loneliness at UCLA was rooted in language?

7. How did students react when they were assigned to take the English as a Second Language class?

8. According to Mike, what should be the focus of new college students?

9. How did Mike feel the educators of his time viewed helping the poor?

10. What did Mike say was the link between students' backgrounds and their success or failure in college?

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