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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Kozol, when are citizens given $400 in exchange for a release from liability?
(a) When they are hurt while working at the chemical plant.
(b) When they are fired from the chemical plants.
(c) When they breath toxic emission from the chemical plants.
(d) When they partake in chemical experiments at the plant.

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

3. 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) Sewage in the school.
(c) The emission of toxic chemicals.
(d) Lead in the drinking water.

4. 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) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Booker T. Washington.
(c) W.E.B. DuBois.
(d) Mary McLeod Bethune.

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

6. What court decision found that segregated institutions for black people could exist as long as they were equal to those open to white people?
(a) Davis, et. al. v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, VA et al.
(b) Brown v. Board of Education.
(c) Plessy v. Ferguson.
(d) Briggs, et. al. v. Elliott et al.

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

8. According to Kozol, how are East St. Louis and Lawndale similar?
(a) The urban schools have no books.
(b) The city government is the main employer.
(c) There is no industry there.
(d) The students have to attend mandatory summer school.

9. What public service does Kozol mention that East St. Louis lacks?
(a) Welfare.
(b) Recycling.
(c) Unemployment Services.
(d) Trash Removal.

10. How many years did Kozol spend visiting schools and speaking with children about their schools and neighborhoods?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

11. What types of schools does the Chicago public school system lack?
(a) Early Head Start centers.
(b) High Schools.
(c) Junior high schools.
(d) Elementary Schools.

12. 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) It was an all-white high school.
(c) He lived to far way to attend the school.
(d) The school was not built when he was in high school.

13. How many teachers did Kozol's students in the urban Boston school have before he was assigned to teach their class?
(a) 11.
(b) 12.
(c) 14.
(d) 13.

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

15. How many non-white students does Kozol say attended most of the urban schools he visited?
(a) 97 to 100 percent.
(b) 90 to 99 percent.
(c) 95 to 97 percent.
(d) 95 to 99 percent.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to sister Julia, why were classes never held at the newly constructed Jefferson School?

3. According to Kozol, whose responsibility is it to supply all children with equally good schools?

4. How do the chemical plants get away with not paying taxes in East St. Louis?

5. Whose voices does Kozol say were missing from summit conferences on education, severe reports, and ominous prescriptions?

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