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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, "Other People's Children: North Lawndale and the South Side of Chicago,".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What religious order helps to operate a mission at the Villa Griffin homes?
(a) The Daughters of Divine Charity.
(b) The Daughters of Charity.
(c) The Daughters of Divine Love.
(d) The Daughters of the Holy Spirit.

2. How many banks did the Tribune say were located in North Lawndale?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 0.
(d) 1.

3. Why does Kozol introduce his class to poetry?
(a) Because he did not have any textbooks in his classroom.
(b) Because he did not have any lesson plans.
(c) To familiarize students with a different form of literature.
(d) To reawaken the children's interest in school.

4. How many teachers did Kozol's students in the urban Boston school have before he was assigned to teach their class?
(a) 14.
(b) 11.
(c) 12.
(d) 13.

5. What statistic does Kozol give for the number of births in East St. Louis to single mothers?
(a) Three of five births are to single mothers.
(b) Four of five births are to single mothers.
(c) Two of five births are to single mothers.
(d) One of five births are to single mothers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Carla Hawkins, the teacher of a combination fifth and sixth grade class, acquire all the materials and resources for her class?

2. What happened to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home in Lawndale after he moved?

3. How much money does Kozol say is spent on each child attending a rich, white, public school around Chicago?

4. What reason does Warren Franczyk, principal of Mary McLeod Bethune School, give for teachers losing their high school jobs in North Lawndale?

5. What was the poem that is memorized by the students in Kozol's class about?

(see the answer key)

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