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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What animal did the children observe outside a Chicago steel plant?
(a) Fox.
(b) Snowy Owl.
(c) Bald eagle.
(d) Deer.

2. What does Ayers say the message should be to the children in youth?
(a) You are here for an education.
(b) You are a valuable person.
(c) Do your best.
(d) Focus on other students.

3. According to Ayers, what is in charge at the schools that limited individuality?
(a) The principal.
(b) The schedule.
(c) The building
(d) The teacher.

4. According to Ayers, what tells us what to do?
(a) Our teachers.
(b) Our parents.
(c) Our principals.
(d) Our environments.

5. What percentage of African American boys does Ayers say will spend some time in prison?
(a) 25% will spend some time in prison.
(b) 10% will spend some time in prison.
(c) 33% will spend some time in prison.
(d) 66% will spend some time in prison.

6. According to Chapter 2, "Seeing the Student," what is the often underutilized source of knowledge about youngsters?
(a) Parents.
(b) The child.
(c) Doctors.
(d) Teachers.

7. What did Duke bring to the attention of the other children about Mr. Ayers?
(a) Mr. Ayers's nose.
(b) Mr. Ayers's hands.
(c) Mr. Ayers's eyes.
(d) Mr. Ayers's mouth.

8. What does Ayers identify as a time of invention, discovery, and surprise?
(a) Adulthood.
(b) Daycare.
(c) School.
(d) Childhood.

9. What model is curriculum built on based on Ayers's research?
(a) The surplus model.
(b) The teacher-centered model.
(c) The student-centered model.
(d) The deficit model.

10. How did Ayers stay alive as a teacher?
(a) Ayers stayed open to mystery.
(b) Ayers did not let things bother him.
(c) Ayers closed his mind to others.
(d) Ayers knew it all.

11. What type of school does Ayers say points toward students at the center of the education enterprise?
(a) Ideal schools.
(b) Big schools.
(c) Small schools.
(d) Teacher-centered schools.

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

13. What year did Ayers begin teaching?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1965.

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

15. What is considered by Ayers an epidemic in our schools known as a toxic habit with no limits?
(a) Labeling.
(b) Stereotyping.
(c) Flu.
(d) Prejudice.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Ayers believes that what sets up schools as institutional forms for re-creation of specific values and norms, dispositions, and assumptions?

4. Who was an amazing teacher that argued that the essence of cognitive development was "having wonderful ideas"?

5. Who was the subject used in a study by Davide Carroll?

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