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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What reason does Warren Franczyk, principal of Mary McLeod Bethune School, give for teachers losing their high school jobs in North Lawndale?
(a) They are shutting down certain schools.
(b) There is a need for more teachers at the elementary-school level.
(c) The low enrollment at the schools.
(d) They are unqualified for the jobs.

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

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

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

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

8. Why does Du Sable High School's principal have a hard time retaining young teachers at his school?
(a) Because young teachers would rather teach in private schools.
(b) Because the suburban schools pay more money.
(c) Because the older teachers have more freedom to be creative.
(d) Because the school system curriculum is too strict.

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

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

11. What are the major industries in Sauget besides the chemical plants?
(a) Prison and cigarette manufacturers.
(b) Topless joints and an outlet for the lottery.
(c) Liquor stores and an outlet for the lottery.
(d) Funeral homes and car dealerships.

12. According to Kozol, what demographic lives predominantly to the east of East St. Louis?
(a) Chinese.
(b) Black.
(c) Hispanic.
(d) White.

13. 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) John F. Kennedy.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) George H. W. Bush.
(d) Ronald Reagan.

14. According to sister Julia, why were classes never held at the newly constructed Jefferson School?
(a) The school did not pass the school board inspection.
(b) There was too much sewage in the school.
(c) The school was not completed.
(d) The construction was not done correctly.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many housing units are in the Villa Griffin homes?

2. How much money does Irl Soloman say he would earn by teaching one of the schools in the suburbs of St. Louis?

3. 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?

4. Which two poets did Kozol expose the children in the urban district to?

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?

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