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

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

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

4. What types of educational options had been proposed in Baltimore, Milwaukee, and Detroit?
(a) Busing black students to schools in white neighborhoods.
(b) Charter schools with a focus on black culture.
(c) All-girl schools.
(d) Separate schools/classes for black males.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Whose voices does Kozol say were missing from summit conferences on education, severe reports, and ominous prescriptions?

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

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

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