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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. According to the 1980 census, what percentage of men and women 17 and older in North Lawndale had no jobs?
(a) 72.
(b) 62.
(c) 58.
(d) 68.

5. In what year was the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education made?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1950.

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

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

9. Why does Kozol introduce his class to poetry?
(a) Because he did not have any textbooks in his classroom.
(b) Because he did not have any lesson plans.
(c) To familiarize students with a different form of literature.
(d) To reawaken the children's interest in school.

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

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

12. What grade did Kozol teach while he was at the urban school in Boston?
(a) Second.
(b) Fifth.
(c) Kindergarten.
(d) Fourth.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sister Julia say that the nicest house in the Villa Griffin homes is used for?

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

3. What does Kozol say lottery proceeds go towards?

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

5. What area lies to the east of East St. Louis?

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