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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. In what year was the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education made?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1956.

2. 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 uphold the school system's high academic standards.
(c) To serve as academic school.
(d) Give the rich an alternative to high-priced private schools.

3. What statistic does Kozol give for the number of births in East St. Louis to single mothers?
(a) Four of five births are to single mothers.
(b) One of five births are to single mothers.
(c) Three of five births are to single mothers.
(d) Two of five births are to single mothers.

4. According to Kozol, what demographic lives predominantly to the east of East St. Louis?
(a) Black.
(b) Hispanic.
(c) Chinese.
(d) White.

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 qualified teachers in the school system.
(b) The overcrowding in classrooms.
(c) The lack of books in the classrooms.
(d) The segregation that still existed in the school system.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Carla Hawkins, the teacher of a combination fifth and sixth grade class, acquire all the materials and resources for her class?

2. According to Kozol, what statistic does New York find hard to track?

3. What grade did Kozol teach while he was at the urban school in Boston?

4. What happened to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home in Lawndale after he moved?

5. What is the race of the non-white children in the accelerated classes at the school in Riverdale?

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