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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. How many children did Baldwin have in his classroom while teaching in the school located in the Boston suburbs?
(a) 20.
(b) 23.
(c) 22.
(d) 21.

2. What religious order helps to operate a mission at the Villa Griffin homes?
(a) The Daughters of Divine Charity.
(b) The Daughters of the Holy Spirit.
(c) The Daughters of Charity.
(d) The Daughters of Divine Love.

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

4. What court decision found that segregated institutions for black people could exist as long as they were equal to those open to white people?
(a) Brown v. Board of Education.
(b) Briggs, et. al. v. Elliott et al.
(c) Davis, et. al. v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, VA et al.
(d) Plessy v. Ferguson.

5. How did Kozol choose the cities that he visited?
(a) He visited cities where he had familiy.
(b) He visited cities with a high rate of infant mortality.
(c) There was no special logic in the cities he chose to visit.
(d) He chose cities that had were ranked as the most dangerous.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the school board in Dearborn Park do that they think constitutes as making school choice equally accessible?

2. According to Kozol, whose responsibility is it to supply all children with equally good schools?

3. Why does Kozol think the most enthusiastic and skilled teachers will not be attracted to urban schools, like Mary McLeod Bethune Schools?

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

5. How much money does Irl Soloman earn at East St. Louis High each year after teaching for nearly 30 years?

(see the answer key)

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