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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Foreword and Prologue, "Looking Backward: 1964 to 1991,".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many teachers did Kozol's students in the urban Boston school have before he was assigned to teach their class?
(a) 14.
(b) 13.
(c) 11.
(d) 12.

3. How many non-white students does Kozol say attended most of the urban schools he visited?
(a) 95 to 99 percent.
(b) 95 to 97 percent.
(c) 90 to 99 percent.
(d) 97 to 100 percent.

4. 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 overcrowding in classrooms.
(c) The lack of books in the classrooms.
(d) The lack of qualified teachers in the school system.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the poem that is memorized by the students in Kozol's class about?

2. In what year was the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education made?

3. What court decision found that segregated institutions for black people could exist as long as they were equal to those open to white people?

4. What influential African American does Kozol note was often cited when black parents or black school officials discussed educating students in the urban public school system?

5. Where did Kozol hold his classes while teaching in the urban school in Boston?

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