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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Beginning Again, The Current Challenge to Teach.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As suggested by Ayers, what does teaching become when consciousness links to conduct and upheaval is in the air?
(a) A call to freedom.
(b) A call to hope.
(c) A call to peace.
(d) A call to love.

2. Who believed that "human beings spent their lives weaving webs of significance"?
(a) June Jordan.
(b) Lisa Delpit.
(c) Gomer Pyle.
(d) Gilbert Ryle.

3. How old was Zayd when the transformation of child to adult began?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Thirteen.
(c) Ten.
(d) Fifteen.

4. Who founded the Workshop Center at City College in New York?
(a) John Holt.
(b) Alice Jefferson.
(c) Joan Cenedella.
(d) Lillian Weber.

5. What did Ayers build that contained literature of diversity and inclusion?
(a) An Anti-bias classroom.
(b) An Anti-bias library.
(c) A labratory.
(d) A bias library.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of music was played at the detention center during work time?

2. What did Ayers say "cramped choices and strangled life chances for the children of the poor"?

3. What does Ayers say "allowed us to glimpse into something of the depth of this enterprise and to unearth the intellectual and ethical implications"?

4. Ayers believes that what is more than pieces of information, more than subject matter, more even than the disciplines?

5. What is an important window into a child and an essential part of any bridge's blueprint suggested by Ayers?

(see the answer key)

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