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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Remembering.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Ashton-Warner do as she turned and left the classroom?
(a) Wave.
(b) Say goodbye.
(c) Cry.
(d) Sigh.

2. What did the junior assistant or a senior pupil sometimes do with the younger students during shared reading?
(a) Read a story.
(b) Sing.
(c) Dance.
(d) Do a science experiment.

3. What did the students do if they ran out of time to write their stories in the allotted time?
(a) They extended the writing period.
(b) They finished them in the afternoon.
(c) They finished them at home.
(d) They finished them the next day.

4. What author, quoted by Ashton-Warner, advocated hitting children as punishment?
(a) E.M. Forster.
(b) D.H. Lawrence.
(c) Charles Dickens.
(d) T.S. Eliot.

5. What composer was Ashton-Warner playing when her students began doing expressive dancing?
(a) Mozart.
(b) Shubert.
(c) Handel.
(d) Beethoven.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Ashton-Warner describe the energy released during the spelling period in "The Mechanics of Teaching Organic Spelling"?

2. In the "game" in which children said what frightened them, what was Seven afraid of?

3. What did Ashton-Warner call the "weakest" words in the language?

4. What was Amira's supposed score in basketball practice?

5. Which student did Ashton-Warner say had to talk to the teacher every time she read a story?

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