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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Part 4 : Chapter 2, Liberty in Education & the Montessori Directress.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As discussed in "Introductory Materials, Preparations & Discovery" based on Montessori's discovery, what was she initially able to do?
(a) Provided these individuals with equipment.
(b) Open a school.
(c) Find a better job.
(d) Make more money.

2. According to Standing, in "Liberty in Education & the Montessori Directress," what makes you free?
(a) Doing what is wrong.
(b) Doing what is right.
(c) Doing what others want you to.
(d) Doing what you want to.

3. What is the aim of practicing life tasks such as domestic chores?
(a) To assist development.
(b) Allow for movement.
(c) Keep children busy.
(d) Help keep the room clean.

4. According to Montessori, what sets the tune of development and the creation of self?
(a) The soul.
(b) The body.
(c) Adults.
(d) The mind.

5. What term refers to the infinite complexity of voluntary muscles?
(a) Self.
(b) Muscular system.
(c) Flesh.
(d) Body.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Montessori, how does the child absorb information from the environment?

2. What is the number one characteristic of a Montessori school?

3. What does Aristotelian philosophy suggest about theories that separate the soul and body?

4. According to Standing, what did Froebel call the inner relationships that children look for between things?

5. According to Montessori, why is oppression of children strange?

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