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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. What reason does Warren Franczyk, principal of Mary McLeod Bethune School, give for teachers losing their high school jobs in North Lawndale?
(a) The low enrollment at the schools.
(b) There is a need for more teachers at the elementary-school level.
(c) They are shutting down certain schools.
(d) They are unqualified for the jobs.
2. How did Kozol choose the cities that he visited?
(a) There was no special logic in the cities he chose to visit.
(b) He visited cities where he had familiy.
(c) He chose cities that had were ranked as the most dangerous.
(d) He visited cities with a high rate of infant mortality.
3. Where do most of the motivated children at Morris High School plan to go after they graduate?
(a) Technical school.
(b) The military.
(c) To work.
(d) Community college.
4. In what year did Kozol set off to visit schools and speak with children about education in urban areas?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1987.
5. According to Kozol, what is the estimated worth of the education a child receives in the suburbs of New York?
(a) $12,000.
(b) $14,000.
(c) $11,000.
(d) $13,000.
Short Answer Questions
1. In the chapter entitled "Life on the Mississippi," what office is described as the largest office in Illinois?
2. How long do some of the students at Morris High School think it will be before blacks and whites work together to better public education?
3. How does the Post-Dispatch describe East St. Louis, Illinois?
4. 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?
5. What does the school board in Dearborn Park do that they think constitutes as making school choice equally accessible?
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