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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 did Ayers take away from a seven year old in the lunch room at P.S. 269?
(a) A knife.
(b) Scissors.
(c) A gun.
(d) A metal pipe.

2. Whose house always filled Ayers with tranquility?
(a) BJ's House.
(b) Coretta's house.
(c) Malcolm and Sue's house.
(d) Harriet and Efrem's house.

3. When To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher was written, what percentage of American children awoke everyday in poverty?
(a) 33% of American children awoke everyday in poverty.
(b) 25% of American children awoke everyday in poverty.
(c) 22% of American children awoke everyday in poverty.
(d) 50% of American children awoke everyday in poverty.

4. Which culture required that each boy kill a lion and be circumcised in order to become a man?
(a) African.
(b) Sioux.
(c) Aborigini.
(d) Zulu.

5. According to Chapter 8, "Beginning Again, The Current Challenge to Teach," what is a learnable skill that begins with a disposition of mind, an attitude, and unshakable belief that every child is a full human being?
(a) Reading.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Kidwatching.
(d) Babysitting.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ayers, what is the goal when kids become the "crowd or herd"?

2. What grade levels were standardized testing banned around the nation?

3. Whose house does Ayers say "invited one to pray"?

4. Ayers suggests that what is built on a base of knowledge about students?

5. Who spent most of the summer designing a "core study" for students?

(see the answer key)

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