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In middle elementary school (ages 8 and 9)
A)A child's reading level might still be below his or her appreciation level
B)Learning is still based on a child's immediate perception and direct experience
C)A child has a very limited attention span
D)A child is just developing a sense of humor
2

At the later elementary stage (ages 10 and 11)
A)Children enjoy stories that involve imaginative play
B)Children like to hear stories that provide reassurance
C)Children begin to see the viewpoint of others
D)Children seek books about hobbies and other interests
3

Middle-school children (ages 12, 13, and 14)
A)Are developing concepts of time and special relationships
B)Are able to apply ideas of relativity to questions of values
C)Learn through imaginative play
D)Are learning autonomy in basic self-help skills
4

Preschool-age children
A)Expect poetic justice in books
B)Are interested in biographies and life in the past
C)Experience rapid language development
D)Are increasingly influenced by their peers
5

Infants
A)Enjoy rhymes, songs, and lullabies
B)Like characters that are easy to identify with
C)Continue to seek independence from adults
D)Seek specific information to answer questions
6

Children's interest in books is most influenced by
A)Their position in the family (oldest, youngest, only child)
B)Gender
C)Age
D)Height
7

Older children prefer
A)Mother Goose rhymes
B)Fairy tales
C)Animal stories
D)Adventure stories
8

The strongest influence on a child's book choices is
A)The book's illustrations
B)The child's age
C)Cultural references
D)Peer recommendations
9

Children in the preschool to primary grades
A)Use embedded language in answering direct questions about stories
B)Are adept at summarizing in place of a straight retelling of a story
C)Begin to see that their feelings about a book are related to identifiable aspects of the writing
D)Move toward a more analytical perception of why characters behave as they do
10

Research on gender differences in children's reading interests
A)Shows that boys would rather read fantasy
B)Indicates that parents play a role in determining reading interests
C)Is inconclusive
D)Demonstrates that girls are interested only in fairy tales
11

Piaget is a psychologist best known for his research into
A)Physical development
B)Cognitive development
C)Moral development
D)Sexual development
12

This psychologist stressed the relationships between the development of thought and language and the importance of adult-child interaction
A)Maslow
B)Piaget
C)Kohlberg
D)Vygotsky
13

Scholars generally agree that response to literature and the process of reading is
A)Enigmatic
B)Automatic
C)Dynamic
D)Static
14

This author suggests that we engage in two stances when reading, the efferent stance and the aesthetic stance
A)Britton
B)Rosenblatt
C)Applebee
D)Gilligan
15

Kohlberg's theories state that children move from one stage of moral development into the next by
A)Growing older
B)Reading books
C)Talking with adults
D)Working through dilemmas





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