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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, when visiting urban public schools who refused to take him to the neighborhoods were the schools were located?
(a) Public Transit.
(b) Parents.
(c) Taxi Drivers.
(d) School Administrators.

2. Whose voices does Kozol say were missing from summit conferences on education, severe reports, and ominous prescriptions?
(a) The parents' voices.
(b) The teachers' voices.
(c) The children's voices.
(d) The communities' voices.

3. When Kozol decides to see what's happening in America's schools, what shocked and outraged him most about the public school system?
(a) The overcrowding in classrooms.
(b) The lack of qualified teachers in the school system.
(c) The lack of books in the classrooms.
(d) The segregation that still existed in the school system.

4. What grade did Kozol teach while he was at the urban school in Boston?
(a) Kindergarten.
(b) Second.
(c) Fifth.
(d) Fourth.

5. What reason did the Post-Dispatch give for the evacuation of Martin Luther King Junior High School in the early spring of 1989?
(a) Lead in the drinking water.
(b) The emission of toxic chemicals.
(c) Sewage in the school.
(d) Fires in the kitchen.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Kozol, whose real names are used in the book Savage Inequalities?

2. According to Kozol, when are citizens given $400 in exchange for a release from liability?

3. In what year did Martin Luther King, Jr. live in North Lawndale?

4. 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?

5. What are the major industries in Sauget besides the chemical plants?

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