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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 grade did Kozol teach while he was at the urban school in Boston?
(a) Second.
(b) Fourth.
(c) Fifth.
(d) Kindergarten.

2. What statistic does Kozol give for the number of births in East St. Louis to single mothers?
(a) Four of five births are to single mothers.
(b) One of five births are to single mothers.
(c) Three of five births are to single mothers.
(d) Two of five births are to single mothers.

3. What is the racial makeup of 98 percent of the population in East St. Louis?
(a) Black.
(b) Hispanic.
(c) White.
(d) Chinese.

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

5. What year did Kozol begin teaching in Boston?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1962.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does Irl Soloman earn at East St. Louis High each year after teaching for nearly 30 years?

2. What does Sister Julia say that the nicest house in the Villa Griffin homes is used for?

3. How much money does Irl Soloman say he would earn by teaching one of the schools in the suburbs of St. Louis?

4. What does the New York Times say the better public schools are intended to do?

5. What Supreme Court decision found that segregated education was unconstitutional because it was "inherently unequal"?

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