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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. Which two poets did Kozol expose the children in the urban district to?
(a) Robert Frost and Langston Hughes.
(b) T.S. Eliot and Claude McKay.
(c) Langston Hughes and Claude McKay.
(d) Langston Hughes and T.S. Eliot.

2. 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 qualified teachers in the school system.
(d) The lack of books in the classrooms.

3. 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) School Administrators.
(c) Parents.
(d) Public Transit.

4. Who authored the poem that one of the most embittered students in Kozol's class memorized?
(a) Claude McKay.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) Robert Frost.
(d) T.S. Eliot.

5. Whose voices does Kozol say were missing from summit conferences on education, severe reports, and ominous prescriptions?
(a) The parents' voices.
(b) The teachers' voices.
(c) The communities' voices.
(d) The children's voices.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children did Baldwin have in his classroom while teaching in the urban school in Boston?

2. What year did Kozol begin teaching in Boston?

3. In what year was the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson rendered?

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

5. How many teachers did Kozol's students in the urban Boston school have before he was assigned to teach their class?

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