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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 are the two sources of lead in East St. Louis named in the Life on the Mississippi chapter?
(a) Manufacturing and drinking water.
(b) Lead-based paint and lack of waste removal.
(c) Lead-based paint and manufacturing.
(d) Drinking water and lead-based paint.

2. In what year was the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education made?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1956.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1954.

3. What is the population of the town of Sauget?
(a) 150.
(b) 200.
(c) 175.
(d) 100.

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

5. What was the poem that is memorized by the students in Kozol's class about?
(a) Infant mortality.
(b) Ghetto life.
(c) Broken dreams.
(d) The public school system.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many children did Baldwin have in his classroom while teaching in the urban school in Boston?

3. What does Sister Julia say that the nicest house in the Villa Griffin homes is used for?

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

5. According to the 1980 census, what percentage of men and women 17 and older in North Lawndale had no jobs?

(see the answer key)

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