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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. What reason did the Post-Dispatch give for the evacuation of Martin Luther King Junior High School in the early spring of 1989?
(a) The emission of toxic chemicals.
(b) Fires in the kitchen.
(c) Sewage in the school.
(d) Lead in the drinking water.

2. Which two poets did Kozol expose the children in the urban district to?
(a) Langston Hughes and Claude McKay.
(b) T.S. Eliot and Claude McKay.
(c) Robert Frost and Langston Hughes.
(d) Langston Hughes and T.S. Eliot.

3. Which one of the following does Kozol not mention as a place where the men in East St. Louis go when they disappear from the community?
(a) The military.
(b) Prison.
(c) Living on the streets.
(d) College.

4. According to Kozol, what statistic does New York find hard to track?
(a) The actual number of teachers in the system.
(b) The actual dropout rate.
(c) The number of students enrolled in urban public schools.
(d) The races and ethnicities of the students in the public school system.

5. How many children did Baldwin have in his classroom while teaching in the urban school in Boston?
(a) 30.
(b) 35.
(c) 25.
(d) 20.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the dropout rate for Woodrow Wilson High School?

2. In what year did Martin Luther King, Jr. live in North Lawndale?

3. What state is Camden located in?

4. The history of East St. Louis shows that African Americans were lured to the city for what reason?

5. How does the school administrator at Morris High School in the South Bronx encourage the supposedly slow children to express themselves?

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