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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. Who used to attend the church in Camden that Kozol passes while chatting with two teachers from Camden High School?
(a) Walt Whitman.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) Robert Frost.

2. According to the Wall Street Journal, what are the two worlds of Washington, D.C.?
(a) The one of the House and the Senate.
(b) The one of Capitol Hill and Brookland Manor.
(c) The one with sparking white monuments and Anacostia.
(d) The one of presidents and congressmen.

3. Why did Sam Morgan, principal of East St. Louis High, not attend the school as a student?
(a) He did not grow up in East St. Louis.
(b) He lived to far way to attend the school.
(c) It was an all-white high school.
(d) The school was not built when he was in high school.

4. Which citiy sits across the Delaware River from Camden?
(a) Philadelphia, PA.
(b) Dover, DE.
(c) New York, NY.
(d) Trenton, NJ.

5. What influential African American does Kozol note was often cited when black parents or black school officials discussed educating students in the urban public school system?
(a) W.E.B. DuBois.
(b) Booker T. Washington.
(c) Mary McLeod Bethune.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kozol think will not solve inner-city problems?

2. How many districts are New York schools divided into?

3. What year was Demetrio Rodriguez's parents class-action suit filed?

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

5. In what year did Martin Luther King, Jr. live in North Lawndale?

(see the answer key)

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