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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 Cherry Hill offers more shops and eateries.
(b) Because Camden did not have any hotels.
(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 fate of Raymond Abbot long after the court's decision is rendered?
(a) He is a student at Rutgers University.
(b) He is working full-time as a manager in a fast food resturant.
(c) He is a cocaine addict in jail.
(d) He is living on the streets.

3. What type of equipment do the students at Pyne Point Junior High use in their typing class?
(a) Old Dell computers.
(b) New Olympia typewriters.
(c) Old Olympia typewriters.
(d) Slightly used computers from one of the schools in Cherry Hill.

4. 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) Prison.
(b) College.
(c) The military.
(d) Living on the streets.

5. What is the dropout rate for Woodrow Wilson High School?
(a) 72%.
(b) 80%.
(c) 68%.
(d) 58%.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the two sources of lead in East St. Louis named in the Life on the Mississippi chapter?

2. What is the race of the non-white children in the accelerated classes at the school in Riverdale?

3. What religious order helps to operate a mission at the Villa Griffin homes?

4. How did Kozol choose the cities that he visited?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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