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

2. How does the Post-Dispatch describe East St. Louis, Illinois?
(a) America's Somalia.
(b) America's Bosnia.
(c) America's Soweto.
(d) America's Cuba.

3. What song does the group of children in the Villa Griffin homes say they sing after the flag pledge?
(a) Mary Had a Little Lamb.
(b) Star Spangled Banner.
(c) Oh Happy Day.
(d) Jingle Bells

4. What does Kozol say lottery proceeds go towards?
(a) State revenue.
(b) State health system.
(c) Education.
(d) Welfare.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of early child care program can the principal at PS79 not start at his school?

2. Where do most of the motivated children at Morris High School plan to go after they graduate?

3. The history of East St. Louis shows that African Americans were lured to the city for what reason?

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 New York Times say the better public schools are intended to do?

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