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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. How did the press in Boston refer to troubled ghetto areas with a low infant mortality rate?
(a) Killer Zones.
(b) Death Zones.
(c) Death Camps.
(d) Ghetto Zones.

2. In what year did Kozol set off to visit schools and speak with children about education in urban areas?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1987.

3. In what year was the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education made?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1956.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1950.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What grade did Kozol teach while he was at the urban school in Boston?

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

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

5. 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?

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