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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, "The Savage Inequalities of Public Education in New York,".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What grade did Kozol teach while he was at the urban school in Boston?
(a) Fourth.
(b) Second.
(c) Fifth.
(d) Kindergarten.

2. What is the name of the Villa Griffin child whose sister was murdered by a friend of the mother?
(a) Mickey.
(b) Smokey.
(c) Serena.
(d) Little Sister.

3. What religious order helps to operate a mission at the Villa Griffin homes?
(a) The Daughters of Divine Charity.
(b) The Daughters of Divine Love.
(c) The Daughters of the Holy Spirit.
(d) The Daughters of Charity.

4. What does the principal at PS79 say he will have to do if more students enroll at his school?
(a) He will have to hold some classes in temporary trailers.
(b) He will have to expand his classes.
(c) He will have to bus them to another school.
(d) He will have to find another building.

5. How much money does Irl Soloman say he would earn by teaching one of the schools in the suburbs of St. Louis?
(a) $47,000.
(b) $50,000.
(c) $48,000.
(d) $49,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Kozol, what does the city of New York supply each ghetto school with?

2. What was Kozol's purpose for writing the book Savage Inequalities?

3. According to Bonita Brodt, a writer for the Chicago Tribune, who is the president in the textbooks that the students are reading at Goudy Elementary School?

4. What was the poem that is memorized by the students in Kozol's class about?

5. At Mary McLeod Bethune School, what does the gospel teacher accuse the children of doing if they fail to sing properly?

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