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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, "Children of the City Invincible: Camden, New Jersey,".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the two sources of lead in East St. Louis named in the Life on the Mississippi chapter?
(a) Lead-based paint and manufacturing.
(b) Drinking water and lead-based paint.
(c) Lead-based paint and lack of waste removal.
(d) Manufacturing and drinking water.

2. According to Kozol, when visiting urban public schools who refused to take him to the neighborhoods were the schools were located?
(a) Public Transit.
(b) School Administrators.
(c) Parents.
(d) Taxi Drivers.

3. According to Kozol, whose responsibility is it to supply all children with equally good schools?
(a) The teachers.
(b) The parents.
(c) The school administrators.
(d) The government.

4. What is the fate of Raymond Abbot long after the court's decision is rendered?
(a) He is working full-time as a manager in a fast food resturant.
(b) He is a student at Rutgers University.
(c) He is living on the streets.
(d) He is a cocaine addict in jail.

5. Which two poets did Kozol expose the children in the urban district to?
(a) Langston Hughes and Claude McKay.
(b) T.S. Eliot and Claude McKay.
(c) Robert Frost and Langston Hughes.
(d) Langston Hughes and T.S. Eliot.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month is black history celebrated in the public schools?

2. How did the press in Boston refer to troubled ghetto areas with a low infant mortality rate?

3. What reason do students give Kozol for dropping out of school in New York?

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

5. What does Kozol say Camden's entire property wealth of $250 million is less than the value of?

(see the answer key)

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