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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 major industries in Sauget besides the chemical plants?
(a) Topless joints and an outlet for the lottery.
(b) Funeral homes and car dealerships.
(c) Prison and cigarette manufacturers.
(d) Liquor stores and an outlet for the lottery.

2. What years did the events in the book Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools take place?
(a) 1988-1990.
(b) 1990-1991.
(c) 1988-1992.
(d) 1986-1990.

3. According to Carla Hawkins, Chicago's public schools are in short supply of what type of resource?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Funding .
(c) Students.
(d) Supplies.

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

5. What statistic does Kozol give for the number of births in East St. Louis to single mothers?
(a) Four of five births are to single mothers.
(b) Two of five births are to single mothers.
(c) Three of five births are to single mothers.
(d) One of five births are to single mothers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What court decision found that segregated institutions for black people could exist as long as they were equal to those open to white people?

3. At Mary McLeod Bethune School, what does the gospel teacher accuse the children of doing if they fail to sing properly?

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

5. How much money does Kozol say is spent on each child attending a rich, white, public school around Chicago?

(see the answer key)

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