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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. According to Kozol, East St. Louis has one of the highest rates of which disease in America?
(a) Child ssthma.
(b) Heart disease.
(c) Type II diabetes.
(d) High-blood pressure.

2. What types of educational options had been proposed in Baltimore, Milwaukee, and Detroit?
(a) Charter schools with a focus on black culture.
(b) Separate schools/classes for black males.
(c) All-girl schools.
(d) Busing black students to schools in white neighborhoods.

3. According to the 1980 census, what percentage of men and women 17 and older in North Lawndale had no jobs?
(a) 62.
(b) 58.
(c) 68.
(d) 72.

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) Sewage in the school.
(b) Lead in the drinking water.
(c) Fires in the kitchen.
(d) The emission of toxic chemicals.

5. According to Kozol, whose responsibility is it to supply all children with equally good schools?
(a) The school administrators.
(b) The government.
(c) The parents.
(d) The teachers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What years did the events in the book Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools take place?

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

3. What area lies to the east of East St. Louis?

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

5. Why does Kozol introduce his class to poetry?

(see the answer key)

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