1.
In early colonial times, education was aimed at
A. 
Teaching practical subjects such as navigation and bookkeeping
B. 
Saving souls through religious instruction.
C. 
Keeping children out of mischief, freeing up men and women to toil in the fields or in the home.
D. 
.educating citizens for the demands of a democracy.
2.
The
“Old Deluder Satan Law” of 1647 required that
A. 
All citizens of Massachusetts present themselves periodically to recite Scripture.
B. 
Apprenticeships be prohibited in the state of Massachusetts.
C. 
All citizens of Massachusetts be assessed to determine reading and writing skills.
D. 
Massachusetts provide education for young people.
3.
In
the colonial period, which area offered the most structured, formal education?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
Actually, the colonial educational system was remarkably uniform across all locations
4.
Only
15 years after arriving in America,
the Puritans established the
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
5.
Which
one of the following features of U.S. education today CANNOT be
traced to colonial times?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
6.
The
first real textbook used in eighteenth-century colonial schools promoting not
only mastery of the alphabet but also religious morality was the
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
7.
Benjamin
Franklin’s Academy upheld all of the following principles regarding education
EXCEPT
A. 
Education should be available to both boys and girls.
B. 
School curricula should emphasize practical subjects.
C. 
Education should be available to all children regardless of economic class.
D. 
Education should be free from religious influence.
8.
Education
became a state responsibility through the
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
9.
The
common school movement represented
A. 
the effort to standardize curriculum in grammar schools and academies.
B. 
Benjamin Franklin’s attempt to provide education to both boys and girls.
C. 
The effort to establish public elementary schooling.
D. 
An early version of the drive to promote cultural literacy.
10.
The
name most closely associated with the common school movement is
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
11.
Most Native American children are educated in public
schools.
12.
The 1800s, Native Americans willingly sent their children
to reservation schools.
13.
Church missionaries created a Cherokee syllabary to
teach Native American children in their native
14.
Which
of the following best describes the “gendered” nature of teaching in the U.S.?
A. 
Teaching has always been a “pink-collar” career, with women claiming the vast majority of teaching positions.
B. 
Men have dominated teaching since the mid-nineteenth century.
C. 
The U.S. educational system has provided a welcome refuge from the gender discrimination typical in other careers.
D. 
Males and females have both been considered “unnatural” for choosing a career in teaching.
15.
The
importance of the 1874 Kalamazoo,
Michigan, court case was that it
legally validated public funds for support of
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
16.
According to the film " Spartans" this man was the creator of the utopian Spartan society. He was the legendary lawgiver of Sparta, who established the military-oriented reformation of Spartan society in accordance with the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi. All his reforms were directed towards the three Spartan virtues: equality (among citizens), military fitness and austerity.
17.
King of Sparta and the leader of the three hundred Spartans who died at Thermopylae
18.
__________________was the name of one of the rites of passage events where twelve year old spartans tried to steal cheese from a altar protected by older boys with whips.
19.
In Sparta, older soldiers mentored younger soldiers, helped them i their training and also kept them as lovers
20.
Helots were names of the class of tradesmen and merchants in Spartan society
21.
What we like to think of as "philosophic thought" first appears in Greece in a poem, Theogony , written by Hesiod about 725 B.C
22.
In the latter half of the fifth century, a group called the Sophists ("those with wisdom") shifted the inquiry towards natural science.
23.
_____________ridiculed the anthropomorphic gods of Greece and believed in one great God, which was not physical but was all mind (in Greek: nous ), moving all things by the force of his spirit without himself having to move (since mind was not physical, it couldn't move).
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
E. 
24.
____________taught that Being (or Existence) must be unchanging and unmoving, and so the changing world registered by our senses has no reality whatsoever and cannot be known at all (how can you "know" an illusion?). Only reason, without the senses, can lead us to the truth about existence, which neither moves nor changes nor has any parts.
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
E. 
25.
______________taught that all things come to be from the mixing of innumerable tiny particles of all kinds of substance, shaped by a separate, immaterial, creating principle, Nous ("Mind"). Nous is not explicitly called divine, but has the qualities of a creating god; Nous does not create matter, but rather creates the forms that matter assumes.
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
E.