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

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

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

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) Langston Hughes and Claude McKay.
(d) T.S. Eliot and Claude McKay.

5. According to Kozol, whose real names are used in the book Savage Inequalities?
(a) Public officials.
(b) Adult characters.
(c) Child characters.
(d) Religious characters.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In what year did Kozol set off to visit schools and speak with children about education in urban areas?

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