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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. How many teachers did Kozol's students in the urban Boston school have before he was assigned to teach their class?
(a) 14.
(b) 13.
(c) 12.
(d) 11.

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

3. What do the students at Camden High School do during their lunch hour?
(a) Eat lunch in the cafeteria.
(b) They leave school to obtain lunch elsewhere.
(c) Get bused to a school in Cherry Hill.
(d) Attend a remedial class.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What reason does Warren Franczyk, principal of Mary McLeod Bethune School, give for teachers losing their high school jobs in North Lawndale?

4. What happened to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home in Lawndale after he moved?

5. What public service does Kozol mention that East St. Louis lacks?

(see the answer key)

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