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

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

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

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

5. Which two poets did Kozol expose the children in the urban district to?
(a) Robert Frost and Langston Hughes.
(b) Langston Hughes and Claude McKay.
(c) Langston Hughes and T.S. Eliot.
(d) T.S. Eliot and Claude McKay.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the names of the two auto bridges that cross the Mississippi to connect East St. Louis and St. Louis?

2. What area lies to the east of East St. Louis?

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

4. What does Sister Julia say that the nicest house in the Villa Griffin homes is used for?

5. In what year did Kozol set off to visit schools and speak with children about education in urban areas?

(see the answer key)

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