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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. How many years did Kozol spend visiting schools and speaking with children about their schools and neighborhoods?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

2. According to Kozol, when are citizens given $400 in exchange for a release from liability?
(a) When they are hurt while working at the chemical plant.
(b) When they are fired from the chemical plants.
(c) When they breath toxic emission from the chemical plants.
(d) When they partake in chemical experiments at the plant.

3. 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.

4. According to Kozol, what demographic lives predominantly to the east of East St. Louis?
(a) Chinese.
(b) White.
(c) Black.
(d) Hispanic.

5. What was Kozol's purpose for writing the book Savage Inequalities?
(a) To show parents' views of the American school system.
(b) To let teachers discuss the low pay they receive for such a demanding job.
(c) To compile facts and figures about American urban school systems.
(d) To let the voices, judgments, and longings of children be heard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Kozol say is the biggest employer in East St. Louis?

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

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

4. How did Kozol choose the cities that he visited?

5. According to Kozol, East St. Louis has one of the highest rates of which disease in America?

(see the answer key)

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