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

2. What major difference did Warren Franczyk, principal at Mary McLeod Bethune School, say existed between Mary McLeod Bethune School in North Lawndale and the magnet schools that the city runs?
(a) The magnet school receives more funding than Mary McLeod Bethune School.
(b) The magnet schools have staff problems.
(c) The magnet schools do not have staffing problems.
(d) Mary McLeod Bethune is located next door to a chemical plant.

3. How many non-white students does Kozol say attended most of the urban schools he visited?
(a) 95 to 97 percent.
(b) 97 to 100 percent.
(c) 95 to 99 percent.
(d) 90 to 99 percent.

4. According to Kozol, which buildings in East St. Louis are the nicest?
(a) The Pfizer factory and City Hall.
(b) City Hall and the main police station.
(c) The federal courthouse and City Hall.
(d) The federal courthouse and the city government office building.

5. 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) College.
(b) The military.
(c) Prison.
(d) Living on the streets.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson rendered?

2. According to Reverend Jim Wolff, who moved in to North Lawndale when businesses moved out?

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

4. How did the press in Boston refer to troubled ghetto areas with a low infant mortality rate?

5. Why did Sam Morgan, principal of East St. Louis High, not attend the school as a student?

(see the answer key)

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