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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Seeing the Student.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ayers say the message should be to the children in youth?
(a) You are a valuable person.
(b) You are here for an education.
(c) Focus on other students.
(d) Do your best.

2. According to Ayers, what should the larger goal of education be?
(a) Complete overall of educational system.
(b) Increased teacher pay.
(c) Adequate education for all children.
(d) Adequate education for 75% of children.

3. What was the name of the group of housing activists who constructed simple and livable structures for the homeless?
(a) Mad Housers of Chicago.
(b) Helping Hands of Chicago.
(c) Housing Agency of Chicago.
(d) Habitat for Humanity.

4. What kind of teachers did Ayers suggest were needed now more than ever?
(a) Experienced teachers.
(b) Tired teachers.
(c) Kind teachers.
(d) Crusading teachers.

5. In Chapter 2, "Seeing the Student," what did Ayers have children research for an assignment?
(a) The area the child lived.
(b) The child's first name.
(c) The child's last name.
(d) The child's family's geneology.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ayers, what is the goal when kids become the "crowd or herd"?

2. When To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher was written, what percentage of American children awoke everyday in poverty?

3. According to Ayers, what were many of Ayers's students when he began teaching?

4. What year did Ayers begin teaching?

5. What was the center of the approach used at Prospect School?

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