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

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

3. How many children did Baldwin have in his classroom while teaching in the school located in the Boston suburbs?
(a) 22.
(b) 23.
(c) 20.
(d) 21.

4. Why was Kozol fired from his teaching job in the urban Boston school?
(a) For challenging the administration.
(b) For taking students on a field trip without parental permission.
(c) For teaching poetry that was not on the approved list.
(d) For leaving students unattended.

5. When Kozol decides to see what's happening in America's schools, what shocked and outraged him most about the public school system?
(a) The segregation that still existed in the school system.
(b) The overcrowding in classrooms.
(c) The lack of books in the classrooms.
(d) The lack of qualified teachers in the school system.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Approximately how many neighborhoods did Kozol visit?

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