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

2. How did the press in Boston refer to troubled ghetto areas with a low infant mortality rate?
(a) Death Camps.
(b) Killer Zones.
(c) Ghetto Zones.
(d) Death Zones.

3. What major difference did Warren Franczyk, principal at Mary McLeod Bethune School, say existed between Mary McLeod Bethune School in North Lawndale and the magnet schools that the city runs?
(a) The magnet schools have staff problems.
(b) The magnet school receives more funding than Mary McLeod Bethune School.
(c) Mary McLeod Bethune is located next door to a chemical plant.
(d) The magnet schools do not have staffing problems.

4. What happened to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home in Lawndale after he moved?
(a) It was renovated by the new owner.
(b) It was bulldozed.
(c) It was sold to the city government.
(d) It was declared a historical site.

5. How much money does Kozol say is spent on each child attending a rich, white, public school around Chicago?
(a) $6,000.
(b) $9,000.
(c) $8,000.
(d) $7,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason did the Post-Dispatch give for the evacuation of Martin Luther King Junior High School in the early spring of 1989?

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

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

4. What does Kozol say lottery proceeds go towards?

5. In what year was the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education made?

(see the answer key)

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