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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Ayers consider people were when people, no matter how professional, were given the power to set a standard?
(a) Totalitarian.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Anarchy.
(d) Dictatorship.

2. What did Ayers say could be life-saving in the teaching experience?
(a) Finding allies.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Learn from experience.
(d) Linking consciousness to conduct.

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

4. Who was critically injured in a mountain climbing accident and struggled to walk?
(a) John.
(b) Malik.
(c) Andrew.
(d) David.

5. According to Ayers, what are standardized tests?
(a) Excellent.
(b) Bad.
(c) Good.
(d) A great measurement tool.

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

7. What does Ayers suggest is a highly personal and an intensely intimate encounter?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Acting.
(c) Learning.
(d) Teaching.

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

9. Who was one of William Ayers mentors?
(a) John Holt.
(b) Gilbert Ryle.
(c) Denise Price.
(d) June Jordan.

10. Who described an astonishing process while teaching a course "The Art of Black English"?
(a) John Holt.
(b) June Jordan.
(c) Lisa Delpit.
(d) Gilbert Ryle.

11. Ayers said that someone is required to lay the first plank for what?
(a) Bridge-building.
(b) Learning.
(c) Communication.
(d) Teaching.

12. What is a sophisticated and complex cognitive process as suggested in Chapter 5, "Liberating the Curriculum"?
(a) Learning.
(b) Writing.
(c) Reading.
(d) Teaching.

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

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

15. According to Ayers, what does good teaching demand?
(a) Humility.
(b) Perseverance.
(c) Love.
(d) Compromise.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ayers in Chapter 4, "Building Bridges," what was the "work of life"?

2. Who must be autobiographers and be authentic suggested by Ayers?

3. Ayers stated that ________________________ is more dogmatic and insistent than any religion or political ideology.

4. Ayers suggests that _____________ tears down walls?

5. How many inhabitants spoke English as the native tongue in 1988, according to Chapter 4, "Building Bridges"?

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