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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What types of educational options had been proposed in Baltimore, Milwaukee, and Detroit?
(a) Separate schools/classes for black males.
(b) Charter schools with a focus on black culture.
(c) Busing black students to schools in white neighborhoods.
(d) All-girl schools.

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

3. 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) Briggs, et. al. v. Elliott et al.
(b) Davis, et. al. v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, VA et al.
(c) Plessy v. Ferguson.
(d) Brown v. Board of Education.

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

5. What does the school board in Dearborn Park do that they think constitutes as making school choice equally accessible?
(a) Invite parents to school board meetings.
(b) Send school representatives to parents homes.
(c) Offer the same printed materials to all parents.
(d) Give presentations about the different schools in the area.

6. In the chapter entitled "Life on the Mississippi," what office is described as the largest office in Illinois?
(a) The Lottery Office.
(b) Health Services.
(c) The Unemployment Office.
(d) The Welfare Office.

7. 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) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Booker T. Washington.
(d) Mary McLeod Bethune.

8. According to Kozol, why is eighth-grade graduation highly celebrated in North Lawndale?
(a) Because there is no high school prom in North Lawndale.
(b) Because parents put as much emphasis on eighth grade as they do on the twelfth grade .
(c) Because many of the students will not graduate from high school.
(d) Because most students drop out in the ninth grade.

9. When Kozol decides to see what's happening in America's schools, what shocked and outraged him most about the public school system?
(a) The lack of books in the classrooms.
(b) The overcrowding in classrooms.
(c) The segregation that still existed in the school system.
(d) The lack of qualified teachers in the school system.

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

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

12. What does Kozol say lottery proceeds go towards?
(a) State health system.
(b) State revenue.
(c) Education.
(d) Welfare.

13. 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 schools have staff problems.
(d) The magnet school receives more funding than Mary McLeod Bethune School.

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

15. According to Kozol, what is a major problem at Lawndale Elementary School?
(a) The lack of quality books.
(b) The teachers lack adequate preperation.
(c) The facilities are old and out-of-date.
(d) The children do not have recess.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happened to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home in Lawndale after he moved?

3. What reason did the Post-Dispatch give for the evacuation of Martin Luther King Junior High School in the early spring of 1989?

4. According to the 1980 census, what percentage of men and women 17 and older in North Lawndale had no jobs?

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

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