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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 types of educational options had been proposed in Baltimore, Milwaukee, and Detroit?
(a) Charter schools with a focus on black culture.
(b) All-girl schools.
(c) Busing black students to schools in white neighborhoods.
(d) Separate schools/classes for black males.

2. How many children did Baldwin have in his classroom while teaching in the urban school in Boston?
(a) 35.
(b) 25.
(c) 30.
(d) 20.

3. What religious order helps to operate a mission at the Villa Griffin homes?
(a) The Daughters of the Holy Spirit.
(b) The Daughters of Divine Charity.
(c) The Daughters of Charity.
(d) The Daughters of Divine Love.

4. What does the New York Times say the better public schools are intended to do?
(a) Attract or skim off the more privileged children.
(b) To serve as academic school.
(c) Give the rich an alternative to high-priced private schools.
(d) To uphold the school system's high academic standards.

5. 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?
(a) 400 years.
(b) 300 years.
(c) 100 years.
(d) 200 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Kozol, what is the estimated worth of the education a child receives in the inner city of New York?

2. 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?

3. What are the major industries in Sauget besides the chemical plants?

4. 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?

5. Who said that Americans allow all of their children the things they need to compete at the highest levels of success?

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