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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. What does Ayers state is part of the intellectual challenge of teaching, in addition to knowing students?
(a) Self-awareness.
(b) Kindness.
(c) Compassion.
(d) Self-reflection.

2. Who noted that experience and education were not the same thing?
(a) Addams.
(b) Dewey.
(c) Rilke.
(d) Stanislavsky.

3. Who was a beekeeper that often learned from the bees?
(a) Sue Hubbell.
(b) Lillian Weber.
(c) Alice Jefferson.
(d) John Holt.

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

5. In Ayers classroom, what dominated the window sills and counter tops?
(a) Student projects.
(b) Teacher's artwork.
(c) Photos of students.
(d) Classroom rules.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which publication did Martha Gellhorn write a piece about loving our children?

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

3. Who was one of William Ayers mentors?

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

5. According to Ayers, it is important for all teachers to be what?

(see the answer key)

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