Reading Check: Part 1 (pages 1-80)
1. Which of the following is NOT one of the American students Amanda Ripley worked with?
A) Kim
B) Charlotte
C) Tom
D) Eric
2. What is the new international test that Andreas Schleicher helped to create?
A) SAT
B) ACT
C) OECD
D) PISA
3. Who decided to take this new test?
A) Amanda Ripley
B) Kim
C) Rod Paige
D) Thomas Neville Postlethwaite
4. Who went from Sallisaw, Oklahoma to Pietarsaari, Finland?
A) Kim
B) Charlotte
C) Tom
D) Eric
5. Who went from Minnetonka, Minnesota to Busan, South Korea?
A) Kim
B) Charlotte
C) Tom
D) Eric
6. Who went from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to Wroclaw, Poland?
A) Kim
B) Charlotte
C) Tom
D) Eric
7. What are the private tutoring academies in South, Korea called?
A) Yaja
B) the pressure cooker
C) Namsan
D) Hagwons
8. Who is Korea's education minister?
A) Lee
B) Ji
C) Busan
D) Duncan
9. In math on PISA, where the average score in the U.S placed?
A) Second
B) Third
C) Nineteenth
D) Twenty-sixth
10. Select the possible problem(s) with the teaching of math in the U.S, as highlighted in the book.
A) Textbooks
B) Repeat in curriculum
C) All of the above
D) None of the above
A) Kim
B) Charlotte
C) Tom
D) Eric
2. What is the new international test that Andreas Schleicher helped to create?
A) SAT
B) ACT
C) OECD
D) PISA
3. Who decided to take this new test?
A) Amanda Ripley
B) Kim
C) Rod Paige
D) Thomas Neville Postlethwaite
4. Who went from Sallisaw, Oklahoma to Pietarsaari, Finland?
A) Kim
B) Charlotte
C) Tom
D) Eric
5. Who went from Minnetonka, Minnesota to Busan, South Korea?
A) Kim
B) Charlotte
C) Tom
D) Eric
6. Who went from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to Wroclaw, Poland?
A) Kim
B) Charlotte
C) Tom
D) Eric
7. What are the private tutoring academies in South, Korea called?
A) Yaja
B) the pressure cooker
C) Namsan
D) Hagwons
8. Who is Korea's education minister?
A) Lee
B) Ji
C) Busan
D) Duncan
9. In math on PISA, where the average score in the U.S placed?
A) Second
B) Third
C) Nineteenth
D) Twenty-sixth
10. Select the possible problem(s) with the teaching of math in the U.S, as highlighted in the book.
A) Textbooks
B) Repeat in curriculum
C) All of the above
D) None of the above
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Reading Check: Part 2/3 (pg. 81-199)
1. What was the children's version of Seven Brothers about?
A) Cats
B) Mice
C) Dogs
D) None of the above
2. What is the name of the Korean girl who had lived a lot of her life in the United States before coming back to South Korea?
A) Jenny
B) Megan
C) Paula
D) Susanne
3. A book by Doug Lemov is mentioned in this section. What is this book called?
A) Teaching and Parenting
B) Drive
C) Those Who Can, Teach
D) Teach Like a Champion
4. Which country has the biggest emphasize on sports, or other extracurriculars?
A) Finland
B) Poland
C) United States
D) Korea
5. Which war caused the damage to Tom's temporary home of Wroclaw?
A) World War I
B) World War II
C) The Korean War
D) Polish-Soviet War
6. Due to his reforms, what does Ripley call Poland's minister of education, Miroslaw Handke?
A) The alchemist
B) The reformer
C) The metamorphosis
D) The physicist
7. Which schools, in America, have a low teacher to student ratio? This is only true in three other countries.
A) Schools with the poorest students
B) Schools with the wealthiest students
C) Schools with the smartest students
D) Schools with the lowest standardized test scores
8. What is the Finnish word that means strength in the face of great odds or a sort of inner fire?
A) Yaja
B) Grit
C) Sisu
D) Cesue
9. Who is the $4 million teacher?
A) Lee Chae-yun
B) Kim Anderson
C) Cha Byoung-chul
D) Andrew Kim
10. What university did Eric attend?
A) DePaul University
B) University of Chicago
C) Harvard
D) Loyola University
A) Cats
B) Mice
C) Dogs
D) None of the above
2. What is the name of the Korean girl who had lived a lot of her life in the United States before coming back to South Korea?
A) Jenny
B) Megan
C) Paula
D) Susanne
3. A book by Doug Lemov is mentioned in this section. What is this book called?
A) Teaching and Parenting
B) Drive
C) Those Who Can, Teach
D) Teach Like a Champion
4. Which country has the biggest emphasize on sports, or other extracurriculars?
A) Finland
B) Poland
C) United States
D) Korea
5. Which war caused the damage to Tom's temporary home of Wroclaw?
A) World War I
B) World War II
C) The Korean War
D) Polish-Soviet War
6. Due to his reforms, what does Ripley call Poland's minister of education, Miroslaw Handke?
A) The alchemist
B) The reformer
C) The metamorphosis
D) The physicist
7. Which schools, in America, have a low teacher to student ratio? This is only true in three other countries.
A) Schools with the poorest students
B) Schools with the wealthiest students
C) Schools with the smartest students
D) Schools with the lowest standardized test scores
8. What is the Finnish word that means strength in the face of great odds or a sort of inner fire?
A) Yaja
B) Grit
C) Sisu
D) Cesue
9. Who is the $4 million teacher?
A) Lee Chae-yun
B) Kim Anderson
C) Cha Byoung-chul
D) Andrew Kim
10. What university did Eric attend?
A) DePaul University
B) University of Chicago
C) Harvard
D) Loyola University
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