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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) School Administrators.
(b) Public Transit.
(c) Taxi Drivers.
(d) Parents.

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

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

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

5. How did Kozol choose the cities that he visited?
(a) He visited cities where he had familiy.
(b) He chose cities that had were ranked as the most dangerous.
(c) There was no special logic in the cities he chose to visit.
(d) He visited cities with a high rate of infant mortality.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many teachers did Kozol's students in the urban Boston school have before he was assigned to teach their class?

2. Who authored the poem that one of the most embittered students in Kozol's class memorized?

3. What was the poem that is memorized by the students in Kozol's class about?

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

5. Approximately how many neighborhoods did Kozol visit?

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