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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 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?
(a) The magnet schools have staff problems.
(b) The magnet school receives more funding than Mary McLeod Bethune School.
(c) The magnet schools do not have staffing problems.
(d) Mary McLeod Bethune is located next door to a chemical plant.
2. What is the population of the town of Sauget?
(a) 200.
(b) 175.
(c) 100.
(d) 150.
3. According to Bonita Brodt, a writer for the Chicago Tribune, who is the president in the textbooks that the students are reading at Goudy Elementary School?
(a) John F. Kennedy.
(b) Ronald Reagan.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) George H. W. Bush.
4. What does Kozol think will not solve inner-city problems?
(a) More social services.
(b) More social workers in the neighborhood.
(c) Better schools.
(d) More minority-owned businesses.
5. According to Kozol, how are East St. Louis and Lawndale similar?
(a) The city government is the main employer.
(b) The students have to attend mandatory summer school.
(c) The urban schools have no books.
(d) There is no industry there.
Short Answer Questions
1. What reason did the Post-Dispatch give for the evacuation of Martin Luther King Junior High School in the early spring of 1989?
2. What is one way Jonathan Kozol says can show people how valuable we think they are?
3. What Supreme Court decision found that segregated education was unconstitutional because it was "inherently unequal"?
4. Why does Du Sable High School's principal have a hard time retaining young teachers at his school?
5. According to sister Julia, why were classes never held at the newly constructed Jefferson School?
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