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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Supreme Court decision found that segregated education was unconstitutional because it was "inherently unequal"?
(a) Plessy v. Ferguson.
(b) Briggs, et. al. v. Elliott, et. al.
(c) Brown v. Board of Education.
(d) Davis, et. al. v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, VA et al.

2. How does the Post-Dispatch describe East St. Louis, Illinois?
(a) America's Somalia.
(b) America's Soweto.
(c) America's Bosnia.
(d) America's Cuba.

3. Which two poets did Kozol expose the children in the urban district to?
(a) Langston Hughes and Claude McKay.
(b) Robert Frost and Langston Hughes.
(c) T.S. Eliot and Claude McKay.
(d) Langston Hughes and T.S. Eliot.

4. How do the chemical plants get away with not paying taxes in East St. Louis?
(a) They create small, self-governed, incorporated towns.
(b) They find tax loopholes.
(c) They pay-off goverment officals.
(d) They file taxes in another state.

5. What religious order helps to operate a mission at the Villa Griffin homes?
(a) The Daughters of the Holy Spirit.
(b) The Daughters of Divine Charity.
(c) The Daughters of Charity.
(d) The Daughters of Divine Love.

6. 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.

7. In what month is black history celebrated in the public schools?
(a) January.
(b) February.
(c) October.
(d) May.

8. According to Carla Hawkins, Chicago's public schools are in short supply of what type of resource?
(a) Students.
(b) Funding .
(c) Teachers.
(d) Supplies.

9. According to Kozol, whose responsibility is it to supply all children with equally good schools?
(a) The parents.
(b) The teachers.
(c) The school administrators.
(d) The government.

10. Where did Kozol hold his classes while teaching in the urban school in Boston?
(a) The school basement.
(b) The school cafeteria.
(c) The auditorium.
(d) An unfurnished classroom.

11. Who was two hours late when they came to speak at East St. Louis High?
(a) Ron Brown.
(b) Colin Powell.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Jesse Jackson.

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

13. How much money does Kozol say is spent on each child attending a poor, non-white, public school around Chicago?
(a) $4,000.
(b) $7,000.
(c) $6,000.
(d) $5,000.

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

15. How many children did Baldwin have in his classroom while teaching in the school located in the Boston suburbs?
(a) 22.
(b) 20.
(c) 21.
(d) 23.

Short Answer 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?

2. How many years did Kozol spend visiting schools and speaking with children about their schools and neighborhoods?

3. How many children did Baldwin have in his classroom while teaching in the urban school in Boston?

4. At Mary McLeod Bethune School, what does the gospel teacher accuse the children of doing if they fail to sing properly?

5. According to Kozol, whose real names are used in the book Savage Inequalities?

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