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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) T.S. Eliot.
(c) Robert Frost.
(d) Langston Hughes.

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

3. 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 overcrowding in classrooms.
(b) The lack of books in the classrooms.
(c) The lack of qualified teachers in the school system.
(d) The segregation that still existed in the school system.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What year did Kozol begin teaching in Boston?

5. How many children did Baldwin have in his classroom while teaching in the urban school in Boston?

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