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

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

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

4. At Mary McLeod Bethune School, what does the gospel teacher accuse the children of doing if they fail to sing properly?
(a) Not studying the music.
(b) Not practicing the songs at home.
(c) Not liking the gospel teacher.
(d) Not loving the Lord.

5. What types of educational options had been proposed in Baltimore, Milwaukee, and Detroit?
(a) Charter schools with a focus on black culture.
(b) Separate schools/classes for black males.
(c) Busing black students to schools in white neighborhoods.
(d) All-girl schools.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which citiy sits across the Delaware River from Camden?

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

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

4. Why does one of the psychiatrists that Kozol speaks to believe many whites think more money will not help inner city schools?

5. What does Kozol say the high math and reading test scores in America are based on?

(see the answer key)

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