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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, "The Equality of Innocence: Washington, D.C.,".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the chemical plants get away with not paying taxes in East St. Louis?
(a) They create small, self-governed, incorporated towns.
(b) They file taxes in another state.
(c) They find tax loopholes.
(d) They pay-off goverment officals.

2. Who are the manual arts classes in the Riverdale school reserved for?
(a) Truant students.
(b) The special education students.
(c) The honors students.
(d) Students with an interest in the manual arts.

3. At an elementary school in Anacostia, Kozol speaks with a young girl named Tunisia. What is not one of the things that Tunisia tell Kozol she would do if she had a lot of money?
(a) Paint the dirty walls.
(b) Plant a flowerbox.
(c) Buy new textbooks.
(d) Buy curtains for her teacher.

4. Where do most of the motivated children at Morris High School plan to go after they graduate?
(a) To work.
(b) Community college.
(c) The military.
(d) Technical school.

5. According to Kozol, East St. Louis has one of the highest rates of which disease in America?
(a) High-blood pressure.
(b) Heart disease.
(c) Child ssthma.
(d) Type II diabetes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the racial makeup of 98 percent of the population in East St. Louis?

2. What is one way not mentioned by Kozol's friend Elizabeth that poor people know that they are living in a rich society?

3. What issue do PS261 and PS79 share?

4. Which school did President George H.W. Bush attend?

5. What does Thurston say black people did not understand regarding their children and the public education system in Washington, D.C. and those in the surrounding suburbs?

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