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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mike do most of his first year at UCLA?

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

3. Primarily, what type of high school student did Mike work with at UCLA?

4. What was the purpose of the Writing Research Project?

5. What did Mike say was a disturbing tendency among educators in his time?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What struck Mike most about people struggling to learn?

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

5. According to Mike, how did nineteenth century educators view their mission to help the poor?

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

7. How did Mike use poems and songs to teach language to the veterans?

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

9. According to Mike, turn-of-the-century English education was based on what?

10. Why did Mike feel summarizing was a crucial skill?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the problems schools caused who students who were classified as remedial. Use examples from the book.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss what effect Mike's experience with literary works had on his teaching methods. Use examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how Mike challenged the education system that was in place at the time the book was written. Use examples from the book.

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