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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. What years did the events in the book Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools take place?
(a) 1988-1992.
(b) 1990-1991.
(c) 1986-1990.
(d) 1988-1990.

2. In what month is black history celebrated in the public schools?
(a) February.
(b) May.
(c) January.
(d) October.

3. Approximately how many neighborhoods did Kozol visit?
(a) 30.
(b) 15.
(c) 20.
(d) 25.

4. What was Kozol's purpose for writing the book Savage Inequalities?
(a) To compile facts and figures about American urban school systems.
(b) To let teachers discuss the low pay they receive for such a demanding job.
(c) To let the voices, judgments, and longings of children be heard.
(d) To show parents' views of the American school system.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who authored the poem that one of the most embittered students in Kozol's class memorized?

3. What types of educational options had been proposed in Baltimore, Milwaukee, and Detroit?

4. How did the press in Boston refer to troubled ghetto areas with a low infant mortality rate?

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

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