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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How much money does Irl Soloman say he would earn by teaching one of the schools in the suburbs of St. Louis?
(a) $47,000.
(b) $49,000.
(c) $48,000.
(d) $50,000.

3. 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.

4. Approximately how many neighborhoods did Kozol visit?
(a) 20.
(b) 30.
(c) 15.
(d) 25.

5. What year did Kozol begin teaching in Boston?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1965.

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

7. What major difference did Warren Franczyk, principal at Mary McLeod Bethune School, say existed between Mary McLeod Bethune School in North Lawndale and the magnet schools that the city runs?
(a) The magnet schools do not have staffing problems.
(b) Mary McLeod Bethune is located next door to a chemical plant.
(c) The magnet school receives more funding than Mary McLeod Bethune School.
(d) The magnet schools have staff problems.

8. How many housing units are in the Villa Griffin homes?
(a) 100.
(b) 101.
(c) 99.
(d) 98.

9. What was Kozol's purpose for writing the book Savage Inequalities?
(a) To compile facts and figures about American urban school systems.
(b) To show parents' views of the American school system.
(c) To let the voices, judgments, and longings of children be heard.
(d) To let teachers discuss the low pay they receive for such a demanding job.

10. Who authored the poem that one of the most embittered students in Kozol's class memorized?
(a) Robert Frost.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) T.S. Eliot.
(d) Claude McKay.

11. What are the names of the two auto bridges that cross the Mississippi to connect East St. Louis and St. Louis?
(a) St. Louis Gateway Bridge and Malcolm X Bridge.
(b) Malcolm X Bridge and Martin Luther King Bridge.
(c) Poplar Street Bridge and Mississippi River Bridge.
(d) Poplar Street Bridge and Martin Luther King Bridge.

12. Whose voices does Kozol say were missing from summit conferences on education, severe reports, and ominous prescriptions?
(a) The communities' voices.
(b) The children's voices.
(c) The parents' voices.
(d) The teachers' voices.

13. According to Kozol, East St. Louis has one of the highest rates of which disease in America?
(a) Type II diabetes.
(b) Heart disease.
(c) High-blood pressure.
(d) Child ssthma.

14. What is the population of the town of Sauget?
(a) 200.
(b) 100.
(c) 175.
(d) 150.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What system of schools does Kozol say are highly attractive to more sophisticated parents, who are disproportionately white and middle class?

2. In what month is black history celebrated in the public schools?

3. Who does Kozol condemn for offering to help troubled non-white schools, but who actually intend for disadvantaged students to prepare themselves for low-quality, factory jobs?

4. What types of educational options had been proposed in Baltimore, Milwaukee, and Detroit?

5. What does the school board in Dearborn Park do that they think constitutes as making school choice equally accessible?

(see the answer keys)

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