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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Foreword and Prologue, "Looking Backward: 1964 to 1991,".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many children did Baldwin have in his classroom while teaching in the urban school in Boston?
(a) 20.
(b) 35.
(c) 25.
(d) 30.

2. When Kozol decides to see what's happening in America's schools, what shocked and outraged him most about the public school system?
(a) The lack of qualified teachers in the school system.
(b) The segregation that still existed in the school system.
(c) The overcrowding in classrooms.
(d) The lack of books in the classrooms.

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

4. Why does Kozol introduce his class to poetry?
(a) Because he did not have any textbooks in his classroom.
(b) Because he did not have any lesson plans.
(c) To familiarize students with a different form of literature.
(d) To reawaken the children's interest in school.

5. In what month is black history celebrated in the public schools?
(a) February.
(b) May.
(c) January.
(d) October.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Kozol fired from his teaching job in the urban Boston school?

2. Who authored the poem that one of the most embittered students in Kozol's class memorized?

3. How many teachers did Kozol's students in the urban Boston school have before he was assigned to teach their class?

4. What years did the events in the book Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools take place?

5. How did Kozol choose the cities that he visited?

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