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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, whose responsibility is it to supply all children with equally good schools?
(a) The teachers.
(b) The parents.
(c) The government.
(d) The school administrators.

2. How many non-white students does Kozol say attended most of the urban schools he visited?
(a) 97 to 100 percent.
(b) 95 to 99 percent.
(c) 95 to 97 percent.
(d) 90 to 99 percent.

3. 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) High-blood pressure.
(d) Child ssthma.

4. What is one way Kozol says children realize they are getting an inferior education?
(a) By reading stories about schools in rich neighborhoods.
(b) By watching TV and seeing how the other half live.
(c) By talking to friends about schools their other family members attend.
(d) By visiting other schools.

5. What Supreme Court decision found that segregated education was unconstitutional because it was "inherently unequal"?
(a) Plessy v. Ferguson.
(b) Briggs, et. al. v. Elliott, et. al.
(c) Davis, et. al. v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, VA et al.
(d) Brown v. Board of Education.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to sister Julia, why were classes never held at the newly constructed Jefferson School?

2. How many years did Kozol spend visiting schools and speaking with children about their schools and neighborhoods?

3. Why does Du Sable High School's principal have a hard time retaining young teachers at his school?

4. What system of schools does Kozol say are highly attractive to more sophisticated parents, who are disproportionately white and middle class?

5. What was the poem that is memorized by the students in Kozol's class about?

(see the answer key)

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