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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, "Other People's Children: North Lawndale and the South Side of Chicago,".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many non-white students does Kozol say attended most of the urban schools he visited?
(a) 95 to 99 percent.
(b) 95 to 97 percent.
(c) 97 to 100 percent.
(d) 90 to 99 percent.

2. What are the names of the two auto bridges that cross the Mississippi to connect East St. Louis and St. Louis?
(a) Malcolm X Bridge and Martin Luther King Bridge.
(b) Poplar Street Bridge and Mississippi River Bridge.
(c) St. Louis Gateway Bridge and Malcolm X Bridge.
(d) Poplar Street Bridge and Martin Luther King Bridge.

3. 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 overcrowding in classrooms.
(b) The lack of qualified teachers in the school system.
(c) The lack of books in the classrooms.
(d) The segregation that still existed in the school system.

4. How did Carla Hawkins, the teacher of a combination fifth and sixth grade class, acquire all the materials and resources for her class?
(a) The school board provided her with funding.
(b) Another teacher loaned them to her.
(c) The principal bought them for her.
(d) She bought them herself.

5. According to Carla Hawkins, Chicago's public schools are in short supply of what type of resource?
(a) Supplies.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Students.
(d) Funding .

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the two sources of lead in East St. Louis named in the Life on the Mississippi chapter?

2. What types of educational options had been proposed in Baltimore, Milwaukee, and Detroit?

3. In the chapter entitled "Life on the Mississippi," what office is described as the largest office in Illinois?

4. According to the 1980 census, what percentage of men and women 17 and older in North Lawndale had no jobs?

5. Why does Kozol think the most enthusiastic and skilled teachers will not be attracted to urban schools, like Mary McLeod Bethune Schools?

(see the answer key)

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