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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, The Mystery of Teaching.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who asked how race relations were going in Chicago?
(a) Irene.
(b) Jose.
(c) Duke.
(d) Elaine.

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

3. Ayers believes that learning is what?
(a) Boring.
(b) Not linear.
(c) Hard.
(d) Easy.

4. According to Ayers, what is in charge at the schools that limited individuality?
(a) The teacher.
(b) The principal.
(c) The schedule.
(d) The building

5. Ayers suggests that what is built on a base of knowledge about students?
(a) Outstanding teaching.
(b) Outstanding schools.
(c) Outstanding parents.
(d) Outstanding learning.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who assigns numbers to textbooks linking books to "grade-level"?

2. What type of school grew out of the civil rights struggle?

3. What does Ayers suggest is a highly personal and an intensely intimate encounter?

4. What do educators become when "talk turned to skills" according to Ayers?

5. In Chapter 6, "Keeping Track," what is the process of narrowing, punishing, and controlling from the outside that too often passed for assessment?

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