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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Creative Teaching, 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long did Ashton-Warner give the students each day to write their stories?
(a) An hour.
(b) 20 minutes.
(c) A half-hour.
(d) 15 minutes.

2. How long did many of the students' stories become by the time they were six?
(a) Three sentences.
(b) One whole paragraph.
(c) One page.
(d) Half a page.

3. What did the students do with their cards after they were handed out?
(a) They wrote stories using the words.
(b) They read the words silently to themselves.
(c) They read the words to the teacher.
(d) They paired up with other students and taught each other the words.

4. In what year did Leo Tolstoy begin his peasant school?
(a) 1859.
(b) 1869.
(c) 1857.
(d) 1862.

5. What was the most powerful word under the "sex" category?
(a) Kiss.
(b) Dance.
(c) Love.
(d) Darling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the most powerful word under the "fear" category?

2. Under what category was the Maori word, "haka," placed?

3. Between what hours did Ashton-Warner focus on creativity through work on the key vocabulary?

4. In the illustrations accompanying "Organic Writing," what fatal accident did one child claim had happened to him?

5. How did Ashton-Warner describe the worst assistant she ever had in the classroom?

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