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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, "Life on the Mississippi: East St. Louis, Illinois,".
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What are the two sources of lead in East St. Louis named in the Life on the Mississippi chapter?
(a) Lead-based paint and lack of waste removal.
(b) Lead-based paint and manufacturing.
(c) Manufacturing and drinking water.
(d) Drinking water and lead-based paint.
2. 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 segregation that still existed in the school system.
(c) The lack of books in the classrooms.
(d) The lack of qualified teachers in the school system.
3. What was the poem that is memorized by the students in Kozol's class about?
(a) Broken dreams.
(b) The public school system.
(c) Infant mortality.
(d) Ghetto life.
4. What Supreme Court decision found that segregated education was unconstitutional because it was "inherently unequal"?
(a) Briggs, et. al. v. Elliott, et. al.
(b) Plessy v. Ferguson.
(c) Davis, et. al. v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, VA et al.
(d) Brown v. Board of Education.
5. What reason did the Post-Dispatch give for the evacuation of Martin Luther King Junior High School in the early spring of 1989?
(a) Sewage in the school.
(b) Lead in the drinking water.
(c) The emission of toxic chemicals.
(d) Fires in the kitchen.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Kozol say lottery proceeds go towards?
2. What years did the events in the book Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools take place?
3. How did the press in Boston refer to troubled ghetto areas with a low infant mortality rate?
4. What are the major industries in Sauget besides the chemical plants?
5. According to Kozol, East St. Louis has one of the highest rates of which disease in America?
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