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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the reason for the difference in number of students per class in the Montessori classroom compared to the traditional classroom?
(a) Children lean from one another.
(b) Time constraints.
(c) Enrollment numbers.
(d) Ability to control the children.

2. In the Montessori classroom, what must be distributed evenly to foster the child?
(a) Correction and encouragement.
(b) Fun games and learning.
(c) Supplies and free time.
(d) Punishment and warnings.

3. Why did Montessori suggests that the animal instinct to walk at birth is gone in humans?
(a) It is unnecessary.
(b) Infants are too pampered.
(c) We have the opportunity to create our movement.
(d) We have digressed as a species.

4. In terms of furniture, what does Standing suggest a child prefers in "The Fundamental Problem & Prepared Environment"?
(a) Light colored tables.
(b) Mulitcolored tables.
(c) Fancy marble tables.
(d) Dark colored tables.

5. According to Standing, what is the nature of the psychic life of man?
(a) It is only present in the intelligent.
(b) It goes on for ever.
(c) It is repressed.
(d) It ends quickly.

6. What did Froebel study as a young student?
(a) Medicine.
(b) History.
(c) Business.
(d) Architecture.

7. In "Liberty in Education & the Montessori Directress," what does Standing suggests is one of the most attractive features of being a Montessori teacher?
(a) The freshness of each day.
(b) The pay.
(c) The free time.
(d) The feeling of accomplishment.

8. What process does not complete itself for several years after birth and can be fostered by the Montessori school?
(a) Self.
(b) Superior incarntaion.
(c) Progressive incarnation.
(d) Inactive incarnation.

9. According to Montessori, what must a a teacher do in order to no longer look at herself as someone with a duty to push children forward?
(a) Understand the child.
(b) Admit defeat.
(c) Know all the answers.
(d) Become humble.

10. What type of interaction occurs in a traditional classroom?
(a) Teacher-Child-Envorinment.
(b) Child-Environemnt.
(c) Teacher-Environment.
(d) Teacher-Child.

11. How does Standing state Froebelians view the Montessori method?
(a) Too unstructured.
(b) Perfect.
(c) Too vague.
(d) Too rigid.

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

13. What did Montessori suggest the human grows principally during the fires year of life?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Muscles.
(c) Bones.
(d) Reason.

14. In "The Fundamental Problem & Prepared Environment," Standing discusses a daydream of Montessori's concerning her wish to teach adults about dealing with children. What did she wish she could do?
(a) Provide psychotherapy for all adults who deal with children.
(b) Provide role playing exercises.
(c) Invite the adults to the Montessori classroom.
(d) Create a space big enough for the adults to learn in.

15. What type of interaction occurs in the Montessori classroom?
(a) Teacher-Child.
(b) Teacher-Child-Environment.
(c) Child-Environment.
(d) Teacher-Environment.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Practical Life & Mental Processes," what does Standing suggest is a conquest to be won by humans?

2. What is considered a good class size in a Montessori classroom?

3. According to Standing, when might a piece of material be taken away from a child in the Montessori classroom?

4. According to Montessori, what must be constructed before the individual can begin his movements?

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

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