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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. Why does Kozol introduce his class to poetry?
(a) Because he did not have any lesson plans.
(b) To reawaken the children's interest in school.
(c) To familiarize students with a different form of literature.
(d) Because he did not have any textbooks in his classroom.

2. What was the poem that is memorized by the students in Kozol's class about?
(a) Infant mortality.
(b) Ghetto life.
(c) Broken dreams.
(d) The public school system.

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

4. How many years did Kozol spend visiting schools and speaking with children about their schools and neighborhoods?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

5. What court decision found that segregated institutions for black people could exist as long as they were equal to those open to white people?
(a) Briggs, et. al. v. Elliott et al.
(b) Davis, et. al. v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, VA et al.
(c) Plessy v. Ferguson.
(d) Brown v. Board of Education.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what month is black history celebrated in the public schools?

3. 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?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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