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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 did the press in Boston refer to troubled ghetto areas with a low infant mortality rate?
(a) Killer Zones.
(b) Ghetto Zones.
(c) Death Zones.
(d) Death Camps.

2. What is the population of the town of Sauget?
(a) 200.
(b) 175.
(c) 100.
(d) 150.

3. What influential African American does Kozol note was often cited when black parents or black school officials discussed educating students in the urban public school system?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Booker T. Washington.
(c) W.E.B. DuBois.
(d) Mary McLeod Bethune.

4. According to Kozol, which buildings in East St. Louis are the nicest?
(a) City Hall and the main police station.
(b) The federal courthouse and City Hall.
(c) The federal courthouse and the city government office building.
(d) The Pfizer factory and City Hall.

5. When Kozol decides to see what's happening in America's schools, what shocked and outraged him most about the public school system?
(a) The lack of books in the classrooms.
(b) The segregation that still existed in the school system.
(c) The overcrowding in classrooms.
(d) The lack of qualified teachers in the school system.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who are the manual arts classes in the Riverdale school reserved for?

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

4. What statistic does Kozol give for the number of births in East St. Louis to single mothers?

5. What does the school board in Dearborn Park do that they think constitutes as making school choice equally accessible?

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