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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What grade did Kozol teach while he was at the urban school in Boston?
(a) Fourth.
(b) Second.
(c) Kindergarten.
(d) Fifth.
2. What does the school board in Dearborn Park do that they think constitutes as making school choice equally accessible?
(a) Give presentations about the different schools in the area.
(b) Offer the same printed materials to all parents.
(c) Invite parents to school board meetings.
(d) Send school representatives to parents homes.
3. Who does Kozol condemn for offering to help troubled non-white schools, but who actually intend for disadvantaged students to prepare themselves for low-quality, factory jobs?
(a) Suburan school principals.
(b) City officials.
(c) Business leaders.
(d) The federal government.
4. How much money does Kozol say is spent on each child attending a poor, non-white, public school around Chicago?
(a) $7,000.
(b) $4,000.
(c) $5,000.
(d) $6,000.
5. How do the chemical plants get away with not paying taxes in East St. Louis?
(a) They find tax loopholes.
(b) They create small, self-governed, incorporated towns.
(c) They pay-off goverment officals.
(d) They file taxes in another state.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to Reverend Jim Wolff, who moved in to North Lawndale when businesses moved out?
2. What is the name of the Villa Griffin child whose sister was murdered by a friend of the mother?
3. According to the 1980 census, what percentage of men and women 17 and older in North Lawndale had no jobs?
4. What is the racial makeup of 98 percent of the population in East St. Louis?
5. What major difference did Warren Franczyk, principal at Mary McLeod Bethune School, say existed between Mary McLeod Bethune School in North Lawndale and the magnet schools that the city runs?
Short Essay Questions
1. Compare Coral Hawkins to the gospel teacher at Mary McLeod Bethune School.
2. What problem exists at Lathrop Elementary School, and what is the source of this problem?
3. What financial cuts are proposed for the schools in East St. Louis? Why do cuts have to be made to the schools in East St. Louis? Who is responsible for making the cuts?
4. How did East St. Louis become so poor?
5. What type of health issues exist in East St. Louis? Why do these illnesses exist?
6. Describe the urban public school that Kozol taught in while in Boston.
7. Compare the two court decisions, Brown v. Board of Education and Plessy v. Ferguson.
8. What does the media, parents, and teachers think the issue is with public education?
9. How does Kozol describe the neighborhoods in which the urban schools he visited were located?
10. Why, in most cities, do the influential people that Kozol meets show little inclination to address the segregation in the pubic school system?
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