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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, "Children of the City Invincible: Camden, New Jersey,".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Kozol stay in Cherry Hill while he was visiting Camden?
(a) Because Camden did not have any hotels.
(b) Because Cherry Hill offers more shops and eateries.
(c) Because Kozol prefered to stay in an upper-income neighborhood.
(d) Because the school administrators thought Kozol would be safer in the suburbs.

2. What is the population of the town of Sauget?
(a) 100.
(b) 200.
(c) 150.
(d) 175.

3. What was the poem that is memorized by the students in Kozol's class about?
(a) Infant mortality.
(b) Ghetto life.
(c) Broken dreams.
(d) The public school system.

4. What are the names of the two auto bridges that cross the Mississippi to connect East St. Louis and St. Louis?
(a) Poplar Street Bridge and Mississippi River Bridge.
(b) Malcolm X Bridge and Martin Luther King Bridge.
(c) St. Louis Gateway Bridge and Malcolm X Bridge.
(d) Poplar Street Bridge and Martin Luther King Bridge.

5. How does the school administrator at Morris High School in the South Bronx encourage the supposedly slow children to express themselves?
(a) By writing short stories.
(b) Through interpretive dance.
(c) By writing poetry.
(d) In theater.

Short Answer Questions

1. What types of educational options had been proposed in Baltimore, Milwaukee, and Detroit?

2. How many housing units are in the Villa Griffin homes?

3. According to Carla Hawkins, Chicago's public schools are in short supply of what type of resource?

4. What type of equipment do the students at Pyne Point Junior High use in their typing class?

5. What Supreme Court decision found that segregated education was unconstitutional because it was "inherently unequal"?

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