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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, "Life on the Mississippi: East St. Louis, Illinois,".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Kozol's purpose for writing the book Savage Inequalities?
(a) To let the voices, judgments, and longings of children be heard.
(b) To let teachers discuss the low pay they receive for such a demanding job.
(c) To compile facts and figures about American urban school systems.
(d) To show parents' views of the American school system.

3. Why was Kozol fired from his teaching job in the urban Boston school?
(a) For teaching poetry that was not on the approved list.
(b) For leaving students unattended.
(c) For challenging the administration.
(d) For taking students on a field trip without parental permission.

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

5. How many non-white students does Kozol say attended most of the urban schools he visited?
(a) 90 to 99 percent.
(b) 97 to 100 percent.
(c) 95 to 97 percent.
(d) 95 to 99 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What court decision found that segregated institutions for black people could exist as long as they were equal to those open to white people?

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

3. What reason did the Post-Dispatch give for the evacuation of Martin Luther King Junior High School in the early spring of 1989?

4. 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?

5. How many housing units are in the Villa Griffin homes?

(see the answer key)

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