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

2. What year did Kozol begin teaching in Boston?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1962.

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?
(a) Plessy v. Ferguson.
(b) Davis, et. al. v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, VA et al.
(c) Briggs, et. al. v. Elliott et al.
(d) Brown v. Board of Education.

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?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Mary McLeod Bethune.
(c) W.E.B. DuBois.
(d) Booker T. Washington.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Kozol introduce his class to poetry?

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

3. How many children did Baldwin have in his classroom while teaching in the school located in the Boston suburbs?

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

5. Which two poets did Kozol expose the children in the urban district to?

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