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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. What philosopher said that language must precede a nation's formation?
(a) Voltaire.
(b) Plato.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Aristotle.

4. What did Ashton-Warner do with the key vocabulary words that were forgotten the next day?
(a) She destroyed those cards.
(b) She tried the cards with other students.
(c) She put the cards away for another day.
(d) She focused on teaching those words.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is a "tangi"?

3. From where, according to Ashton-Warner, did most New Zealand children develop a "mass mind"?

4. What was one bird NOT mentioned as being seen outside the school?

5. How long were Ashton-Warner's seven-year-old students able to write?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Ashton-Warner believe that standardized reading texts were damaging to children?

2. Why did Ashton-Warner throw out words that students did not recognize the second time?

3. Why did Ashton-Warner describe the language of published first readers as "dead"?

4. Why did Ashton-Warner find the European and American early readers two-dimensional?

5. What did Plato believe about dance?

6. How did the students perform when they did expressive dancing versus when they learned specific moves?

7. What did Ashton-Warner mean by "tone" in the classroom?

8. In "Workbook," what did Ashton-Warner mean when she said that one cannot plot life?

9. Why was teaching the class so back-breaking, according to Ashton-Warner?

10. How did modern life in New Zealand make it difficult for people to use their inner resources?

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