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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 types of schools does the Chicago public school system lack?
(a) Junior high schools.
(b) Elementary Schools.
(c) Early Head Start centers.
(d) High Schools.

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

3. 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) Prison.
(c) The military.
(d) Living on the streets.

4. What public service does Kozol mention that East St. Louis lacks?
(a) Welfare.
(b) Trash Removal.
(c) Unemployment Services.
(d) Recycling.

5. 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) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Ronald Reagan.
(d) Richard Nixon.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the chapter entitled "Life on the Mississippi," what office is described as the largest office in Illinois?

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

4. Whose voices does Kozol say were missing from summit conferences on education, severe reports, and ominous prescriptions?

5. How much money does Irl Soloman say he would earn by teaching one of the schools in the suburbs of St. Louis?

(see the answer key)

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