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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. Who authored the poem that one of the most embittered students in Kozol's class memorized?
(a) Robert Frost.
(b) T.S. Eliot.
(c) Claude McKay.
(d) Langston Hughes.

2. Which one of the following does Kozol not mention as a place where the men in East St. Louis go when they disappear from the community?
(a) Living on the streets.
(b) The military.
(c) College.
(d) Prison.

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?
(a) George H. W. Bush.
(b) Ronald Reagan.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) John F. Kennedy.

4. Why did Sam Morgan, principal of East St. Louis High, not attend the school as a student?
(a) The school was not built when he was in high school.
(b) He did not grow up in East St. Louis.
(c) He lived to far way to attend the school.
(d) It was an all-white high school.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Du Sable High School's principal have a hard time retaining young teachers at his school?

2. According to Kozol, what is a major problem at Lawndale Elementary School?

3. What is the population of the town of Sauget?

4. According to Carla Hawkins, Chicago's public schools are in short supply of what type of resource?

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

(see the answer key)

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