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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Life in a Maori School, 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Ashton-Warner's response to the problems with the set early readers?
(a) The students wrote their own books.
(b) She wrote the books for her students.
(c) She asked the families to provide better books.
(d) She used existing Maori texts.

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

3. Under what category was the Maori word, "haka," placed?
(a) Fear.
(b) Locomotion.
(c) Sex.
(d) Other.

4. At what time of day did Ashton-Warner "teach" the Golden Section?
(a) Between 2 and 3.
(b) Between 1 and 2.
(c) Between 12 and 1.
(d) Between 9 and 10.

5. What did the students do with the new words put up on the blackboard each morning?
(a) They added them to their stories.
(b) They practiced spelling them.
(c) They made sentences together with them.
(d) They read them together out loud.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which student chose "King of the Rocket Men" as a key word?

2. What did Seven allegedly use to attack Wi?

3. Which basketball-playing student claimed she would not return to school after being punished for bad behavior?

4. What pet did Matawhero bring to school in "Post Holiday Notes?"

5. What size were the cards Ashton-Warner used for the key vocabulary words?

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