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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. Whose voices does Kozol say were missing from summit conferences on education, severe reports, and ominous prescriptions?
(a) The communities' voices.
(b) The children's voices.
(c) The parents' voices.
(d) The teachers' voices.

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

3. How did Kozol choose the cities that he visited?
(a) He visited cities with a high rate of infant mortality.
(b) He visited cities where he had familiy.
(c) There was no special logic in the cities he chose to visit.
(d) He chose cities that had were ranked as the most dangerous.

4. 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) Two of five births are to single mothers.
(d) Three of five births are to single mothers.

5. According to Kozol, whose real names are used in the book Savage Inequalities?
(a) Adult characters.
(b) Religious characters.
(c) Public officials.
(d) Child characters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Villa Griffin child whose sister was murdered by a friend of the mother?

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

3. How many teachers did Kozol's students in the urban Boston school have before he was assigned to teach their class?

4. According to Kozol, which buildings in East St. Louis are the nicest?

5. How many children did Baldwin have in his classroom while teaching in the school located in the Boston suburbs?

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