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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Kozol, which buildings in East St. Louis are the nicest?
(a) The federal courthouse and the city government office building.
(b) City Hall and the main police station.
(c) The federal courthouse and City Hall.
(d) The Pfizer factory and City Hall.

2. What are the two sources of lead in East St. Louis named in the Life on the Mississippi chapter?
(a) Lead-based paint and manufacturing.
(b) Lead-based paint and lack of waste removal.
(c) Drinking water and lead-based paint.
(d) Manufacturing and drinking water.

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

4. According to Bonita Brodt, a writer for the Chicago Tribune, who is the president in the textbooks that the students are reading at Goudy Elementary School?
(a) Ronald Reagan.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) George H. W. Bush.
(d) Richard Nixon.

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

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

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

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

9. Who does Kozol say is the biggest employer in East St. Louis?
(a) Public education.
(b) Prostitution.
(c) Pfizer Chemical Co.
(d) Drug trade.

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

11. What statistic does Kozol give for the number of births in East St. Louis to single mothers?
(a) Three of five births are to single mothers.
(b) One of five births are to single mothers.
(c) Two of five births are to single mothers.
(d) Four of five births are to single mothers.

12. What area lies to the east of East St. Louis?
(a) Cleveland.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Illinois wasteland.
(d) Illinois bluffs.

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

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

15. Which one of the following does Kozol not mention as a place where the men in East St. Louis go when they disappear from the community?
(a) The military.
(b) Prison.
(c) Living on the streets.
(d) College.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Supreme Court decision found that segregated education was unconstitutional because it was "inherently unequal"?

2. How does the Post-Dispatch describe East St. Louis, Illinois?

3. What reason does Warren Franczyk, principal of Mary McLeod Bethune School, give for teachers losing their high school jobs in North Lawndale?

4. Approximately how many neighborhoods did Kozol visit?

5. How much money does Kozol say is spent on each child attending a poor, non-white, public school around Chicago?

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