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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, "The dream deferred, Again, in San Antonio,".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term does Harper describe as "you crawl along the street and look for rocks. You look for rocks that other people spill. You crawl along your knees..."
(a) Geeking.
(b) Streaking.
(c) Craping.
(d) Cracking.

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

3. In what year was the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson rendered?
(a) 1896.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1898.
(d) 1897.

4. Why was Kozol fired from his teaching job in the urban Boston school?
(a) For challenging the administration.
(b) For leaving students unattended.
(c) For teaching poetry that was not on the approved list.
(d) For taking students on a field trip without parental permission.

5. How did Kozol choose the cities that he visited?
(a) He visited cities with a high rate of infant mortality.
(b) He chose cities that had were ranked as the most dangerous.
(c) He visited cities where he had familiy.
(d) There was no special logic in the cities he chose to visit.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Kozol, how many people are supposed to be in PS261 at one time?

2. Where did Kozol hold his classes while teaching in the urban school in Boston?

3. In which state is San Antonio located?

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

5. What does Kozol say lottery proceeds go towards?

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