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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What system of schools does Kozol say are highly attractive to more sophisticated parents, who are disproportionately white and middle class?
(a) The suburban school system.
(b) The charter school system.
(c) The magnet school system.
(d) The urban school system.

3. According to Reverend Jim Wolff, who moved in to North Lawndale when businesses moved out?
(a) Government offices.
(b) Churches.
(c) Schools.
(d) Gangs.

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

5. How much money does Kozol say is spent on each child attending a rich, white, public school around Chicago?
(a) $9,000.
(b) $7,000.
(c) $6,000.
(d) $8,000.

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

7. What is the name of the Villa Griffin child whose sister was murdered by a friend of the mother?
(a) Smokey.
(b) Mickey.
(c) Little Sister.
(d) Serena.

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

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

10. 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) Prison.
(b) College.
(c) Living on the streets.
(d) The military.

11. 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 have staff problems.
(b) Mary McLeod Bethune is located next door to a chemical plant.
(c) The magnet school receives more funding than Mary McLeod Bethune School.
(d) The magnet schools do not have staffing problems.

12. What years did the events in the book Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools take place?
(a) 1988-1992.
(b) 1988-1990.
(c) 1986-1990.
(d) 1990-1991.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the names of the two auto bridges that cross the Mississippi to connect East St. Louis and St. Louis?

2. How many children did Baldwin have in his classroom while teaching in the urban school in Boston?

3. How did Carla Hawkins, the teacher of a combination fifth and sixth grade class, acquire all the materials and resources for her class?

4. When Kozol decides to see what's happening in America's schools, what shocked and outraged him most about the public school system?

5. What grade did Kozol teach while he was at the urban school in Boston?

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