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

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

3. 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 overcrowding in classrooms.
(b) The lack of books in the classrooms.
(c) The lack of qualified teachers in the school system.
(d) The segregation that still existed in the school system.

4. Where did Kozol hold his classes while teaching in the urban school in Boston?
(a) The auditorium.
(b) The school cafeteria.
(c) An unfurnished classroom.
(d) The school basement.

5. What grade did Kozol teach while he was at the urban school in Boston?
(a) Kindergarten.
(b) Fifth.
(c) Second.
(d) Fourth.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Kozol, when visiting urban public schools who refused to take him to the neighborhoods were the schools were located?

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

4. How did Kozol choose the cities that he visited?

5. Why was Kozol fired from his teaching job in the urban Boston school?

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