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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. What should all teachers take into consideration when understanding children, according to Ayers?
(a) Punishment.
(b) Lesson planning.
(c) Children's lives.
(d) Nighttime fears.

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

3. What is an important window into a child and an essential part of any bridge's blueprint suggested by Ayers?
(a) Family.
(b) Values.
(c) Customs.
(d) Culture.

4. According to Ayers, what were many of Ayers's students when he began teaching?
(a) Culturally deprived.
(b) Savages.
(c) At Risk.
(d) Barbarians.

5. What do educators become when "talk turned to skills" according to Ayers?
(a) Open-minded.
(b) Simple-minded.
(c) Close-minded.
(d) Supportive.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ayers, what is built when there is an engaged and active citizenry?

2. What does Ayers cite is the main reason students drop out?

3. What occupation does Ayers say teachers must "take on" to understand children?

4. In Ayers preschool classroom, which area felt "cozy and home-like"?

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

(see the answer key)

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