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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 one teacher at Camden High School, what does the high school proficiency exam control?
(a) School resources.
(b) The school's hours of operation.
(c) Curriculum.
(d) The classes offered at the school.

2. How much money does Irl Soloman earn at East St. Louis High each year after teaching for nearly 30 years?
(a) $34,000.
(b) $36,000.
(c) $38,000.
(d) $32,000.

3. After speaking to the kindergarten class at PS79, Kozol learns that one of the African-American boys in the class travels how long each day to get to school?
(a) 1 hour.
(b) 2 hours.
(c) 3 hours.
(d) 4 hours.

4. What type of people does Octovia, a child at the Anacostia elementary school, say that the girls want to be like when they grow up?
(a) Rock stars.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Secretaries.
(d) Lawyers.

5. When Kozol decides to see what's happening in America's schools, what shocked and outraged him most about the public school system?
(a) The segregation that still existed in the school system.
(b) The lack of qualified teachers in the school system.
(c) The overcrowding in classrooms.
(d) The lack of books in the classrooms.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the school administrator at Morris High School in the South Bronx encourage the supposedly slow children to express themselves?

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

3. In what year did Martin Luther King, Jr. live in North Lawndale?

4. What did the press report soon after Kozol's visit to the Anacostia elementary school?

5. Approximately how many neighborhoods did Kozol visit?

(see the answer key)

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