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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, Beginning, The Challenge of Teaching.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which country's children did Gellhorn write about?
(a) Canada.
(b) Vietnam.
(c) Mexico.
(d) United States.

2. In which publication did Martha Gellhorn write a piece about loving our children?
(a) Life.
(b) Ladies Home Journal.
(c) Time.
(d) Redbook.

3. Who believed that "Education was the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume the responsibility for it"?
(a) William Ayers.
(b) Nel Noddings.
(c) Maxine Greene.
(d) Hannah Arendt.

4. What Shakespeare play was Ayers's brother required to teach?
(a) Romeo and Juliet.
(b) A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(c) The Tempest.
(d) Julius Caesar.

5. What was the average annual cost to house an inmate in 1999?
(a) $10,000.
(b) $20,000.
(c) $50,000.
(d) $30,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the group of housing activists who constructed simple and livable structures for the homeless?

2. What type of school does Ayers say points toward students at the center of the education enterprise?

3. Ayers believes that learning is what?

4. What object did Ayers compare teaching to in Chapter 1, "Beginning: The Challenge of Teaching"?

5. According to Ayers, what is the educational system?

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