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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, "The Equality of Innocence: Washington, D.C.,".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What business entities exist in Camden but do not pay taxes?
(a) A pharmacutical plant and a sewage treatment plant.
(b) An incinerator and sewage treatment plant.
(c) A chemical plant and incinerator.
(d) A sewage treatment plant and a chemical plant.

2. What is the racial makeup of 98 percent of the population in East St. Louis?
(a) Chinese.
(b) Black.
(c) White.
(d) Hispanic.

3. What is one way Jonathan Kozol says can show people how valuable we think they are?
(a) By the textbooks that are in the classrooms at the school.
(b) By the number of social workers assigned to a school.
(c) By the medical care we offer them.
(d) By the amount of welfare they receive.

4. What does the principal at PS79 say he will have to do if more students enroll at his school?
(a) He will have to hold some classes in temporary trailers.
(b) He will have to bus them to another school.
(c) He will have to find another building.
(d) He will have to expand his classes.

5. According to Thurston, why are poor people in Washington, D.C. willing to accept a dual system of public education?
(a) Poor parents want to expand the educational opportunities of their children.
(b) They are ignorant to the fleeing of the middle class from the city.
(c) The poor do not realize there is a dual system of education.
(d) They want to keep the white and black middle class from fleeing the city.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Du Sable High School's principal have a hard time retaining young teachers at his school?

2. According to Harper, how does her teacher punish the children?

3. In the chapter entitled "Life on the Mississippi," what office is described as the largest office in Illinois?

4. Which city does Kozol point out as having a non-white administration for two years where conditions did not improve?

5. How low does Kozol report you can purchase a home for in North Camden?

(see the answer key)

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