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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. What racial group makes up 92 percent of the children that attend the public schools in Washington, D.C.?
(a) Hispanic.
(b) White.
(c) Asian.
(d) Black.

2. What reason do students give Kozol for dropping out of school in New York?
(a) They felt unknown in their schools.
(b) The did not get good grades.
(c) They felt that school was not for them.
(d) They did not like their teachers.

3. Why does Kozol introduce his class to poetry?
(a) To familiarize students with a different form of literature.
(b) To reawaken the children's interest in school.
(c) Because he did not have any lesson plans.
(d) Because he did not have any textbooks in his classroom.

4. In what year did Martin Luther King, Jr. live in North Lawndale?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1956.

5. According to Kozol, East St. Louis has one of the highest rates of which disease in America?
(a) Child ssthma.
(b) Type II diabetes.
(c) High-blood pressure.
(d) Heart disease.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sister Julia say that the nicest house in the Villa Griffin homes is used for?

2. What was Kozol's purpose for writing the book Savage Inequalities?

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

4. According to Kozol, what is the estimated worth of the education a child receives in the inner city of New York?

5. Whose voices does Kozol say were missing from summit conferences on education, severe reports, and ominous prescriptions?

(see the answer key)

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