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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 did the press in Boston refer to troubled ghetto areas with a low infant mortality rate?
(a) Death Zones.
(b) Killer Zones.
(c) Death Camps.
(d) Ghetto Zones.

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

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

4. In the chapter entitled "Life on the Mississippi," what office is described as the largest office in Illinois?
(a) The Lottery Office.
(b) Health Services.
(c) The Welfare Office.
(d) The Unemployment Office.

5. How does the Post-Dispatch describe East St. Louis, Illinois?
(a) America's Bosnia.
(b) America's Soweto.
(c) America's Cuba.
(d) America's Somalia.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What song does the group of children in the Villa Griffin homes say they sing after the flag pledge?

5. According to Kozol, whose real names are used in the book Savage Inequalities?

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