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

2. 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 taking students on a field trip without parental permission.
(d) For teaching poetry that was not on the approved list.

3. According to Kozol, why is eighth-grade graduation highly celebrated in North Lawndale?
(a) Because most students drop out in the ninth grade.
(b) Because there is no high school prom in North Lawndale.
(c) Because many of the students will not graduate from high school.
(d) Because parents put as much emphasis on eighth grade as they do on the twelfth grade .

4. How did the press in Boston refer to troubled ghetto areas with a low infant mortality rate?
(a) Death Zones.
(b) Ghetto Zones.
(c) Death Camps.
(d) Killer Zones.

5. Why does one of the psychiatrists that Kozol speaks to believe many whites think more money will not help inner city schools?
(a) Because they believe non-whites are actually born inferior.
(b) Because they believe that poor blacks should not be allowed in white schools.
(c) Because they believe that a good education should be reserved for the rich.
(d) Because they believe that non-whites do not deserve a better education.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the names of the two auto bridges that cross the Mississippi to connect East St. Louis and St. Louis?

2. Who is the judge that tried the legal challenge in New Jersey and concluded that local control, as it is presently interpreted to justify financial inequality, denies poor districts all control over the things that matter the most in education?

3. According to Kozol, when are citizens given $400 in exchange for a release from liability?

4. Why did Kozol stay in Cherry Hill while he was visiting Camden?

5. According to Kozol, what is the basic formula for education finance described as?

(see the answer key)

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