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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 much money does Kozol say is spent on each child attending a rich, white, public school around Chicago?
(a) $6,000.
(b) $7,000.
(c) $9,000.
(d) $8,000.

2. What court decision found that segregated institutions for black people could exist as long as they were equal to those open to white people?
(a) Davis, et. al. v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, VA et al.
(b) Plessy v. Ferguson.
(c) Briggs, et. al. v. Elliott et al.
(d) Brown v. Board of Education.

3. What issue do PS261 and PS79 share?
(a) Lack of space.
(b) Lack of up-to-date resources.
(c) Unqualified teachers.
(d) Low enrollment.

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

5. How did Carla Hawkins, the teacher of a combination fifth and sixth grade class, acquire all the materials and resources for her class?
(a) The principal bought them for her.
(b) The school board provided her with funding.
(c) She bought them herself.
(d) Another teacher loaned them to her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one way Kozol says children realize they are getting an inferior education?

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

3. How do the chemical plants get away with not paying taxes in East St. Louis?

4. When Kozol decides to see what's happening in America's schools, what shocked and outraged him most about the public school system?

5. Which two poets did Kozol expose the children in the urban district to?

(see the answer key)

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