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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, "The Savage Inequalities of Public Education in New York,".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many districts are New York schools divided into?
(a) 32.
(b) 36.
(c) 30.
(d) 34.

2. What Supreme Court decision found that segregated education was unconstitutional because it was "inherently unequal"?
(a) Plessy v. Ferguson.
(b) Brown v. Board of Education.
(c) Davis, et. al. v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, VA et al.
(d) Briggs, et. al. v. Elliott, et. al.

3. What was the poem that is memorized by the students in Kozol's class about?
(a) The public school system.
(b) Infant mortality.
(c) Ghetto life.
(d) Broken dreams.

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

5. Who authored the poem that one of the most embittered students in Kozol's class memorized?
(a) Claude McKay.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) Robert Frost.
(d) T.S. Eliot.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many students attend PS261 daily?

2. According to sister Julia, why were classes never held at the newly constructed Jefferson School?

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

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

5. According to Kozol, when visiting urban public schools who refused to take him to the neighborhoods were the schools were located?

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