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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, "The Equality of Innocence: Washington, D.C.,".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Kozol, when visiting urban public schools who refused to take him to the neighborhoods were the schools were located?
(a) Taxi Drivers.
(b) Public Transit.
(c) School Administrators.
(d) Parents.

2. What does Kozol say lottery proceeds go towards?
(a) State health system.
(b) State revenue.
(c) Education.
(d) Welfare.

3. According to Delabian Rice Thurston, where do the rich in Washington, D.C. try to send their children?
(a) Boarding school.
(b) Catholic school.
(c) Private school.
(d) Public school.

4. Who was two hours late when they came to speak at East St. Louis High?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Ron Brown.
(c) Jesse Jackson.
(d) Colin Powell.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What system of schools does Kozol say are highly attractive to more sophisticated parents, who are disproportionately white and middle class?

2. What is one way Jonathan Kozol says can show people how valuable we think they are?

3. Why does Kozol think the most enthusiastic and skilled teachers will not be attracted to urban schools, like Mary McLeod Bethune Schools?

4. At an elementary school in Anacostia, Kozol speaks with a young girl named Tunisia. What is not one of the things that Tunisia tell Kozol she would do if she had a lot of money?

5. According to Reverend Jim Wolff, who moved in to North Lawndale when businesses moved out?

(see the answer key)

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