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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. According to Kozol, when visiting urban public schools who refused to take him to the neighborhoods were the schools were located?
(a) Public Transit.
(b) Taxi Drivers.
(c) Parents.
(d) School Administrators.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What Supreme Court decision found that segregated education was unconstitutional because it was "inherently unequal"?

5. In what year was the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson rendered?

(see the answer key)

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