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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 is the racial makeup of 98 percent of the population in East St. Louis?
(a) Black.
(b) Hispanic.
(c) Chinese.
(d) White.

2. What system of schools does Kozol say are highly attractive to more sophisticated parents, who are disproportionately white and middle class?
(a) The suburban school system.
(b) The magnet school system.
(c) The charter school system.
(d) The urban school system.

3. According to Kozol, how are East St. Louis and Lawndale similar?
(a) The city government is the main employer.
(b) The students have to attend mandatory summer school.
(c) There is no industry there.
(d) The urban schools have no books.

4. What reason did the Post-Dispatch give for the evacuation of Martin Luther King Junior High School in the early spring of 1989?
(a) Fires in the kitchen.
(b) The emission of toxic chemicals.
(c) Lead in the drinking water.
(d) Sewage in the school.

5. How many children did Baldwin have in his classroom while teaching in the school located in the Boston suburbs?
(a) 22.
(b) 21.
(c) 20.
(d) 23.

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. How do the chemical plants get away with not paying taxes in East St. Louis?

3. According to Bonita Brodt, a writer for the Chicago Tribune, who is the president in the textbooks that the students are reading at Goudy Elementary School?

4. What is the name of the Villa Griffin child whose sister was murdered by a friend of the mother?

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

(see the answer key)

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