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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Sam Morgan, principal of East St. Louis High, not attend the school as a student?
(a) It was an all-white high school.
(b) The school was not built when he was in high school.
(c) He lived to far way to attend the school.
(d) He did not grow up in East St. Louis.

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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) Give presentations about the different schools in the area.
(c) Offer the same printed materials to all parents.
(d) Send school representatives to parents homes.

8. What is one way Kozol says children realize they are getting an inferior education?
(a) By visiting other schools.
(b) By talking to friends about schools their other family members attend.
(c) By reading stories about schools in rich neighborhoods.
(d) By watching TV and seeing how the other half live.

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

10. 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) All-girl schools.
(d) Busing black students to schools in white neighborhoods.

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

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

13. Who does Kozol say is the biggest employer in East St. Louis?
(a) Pfizer Chemical Co.
(b) Drug trade.
(c) Public education.
(d) Prostitution.

14. In what month is black history celebrated in the public schools?
(a) February.
(b) May.
(c) October.
(d) January.

15. What religious order helps to operate a mission at the Villa Griffin homes?
(a) The Daughters of Divine Love.
(b) The Daughters of Divine Charity.
(c) The Daughters of Charity.
(d) The Daughters of the Holy Spirit.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does Kozol say is spent on each child attending a poor, non-white, public school around Chicago?

2. According to Kozol, what is a major problem at Lawndale Elementary School?

3. According to Kozol, when visiting urban public schools who refused to take him to the neighborhoods were the schools were located?

4. What statistic does Kozol give for the number of births in East St. Louis to single mothers?

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

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