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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Kozol, which buildings in East St. Louis are the nicest?
(a) City Hall and the main police station.
(b) The federal courthouse and the city government office building.
(c) The Pfizer factory and City Hall.
(d) The federal courthouse and City Hall.

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

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

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

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

7. At Mary McLeod Bethune School, what does the gospel teacher accuse the children of doing if they fail to sing properly?
(a) Not studying the music.
(b) Not practicing the songs at home.
(c) Not loving the Lord.
(d) Not liking the gospel teacher.

8. 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) Booker T. Washington.
(b) W.E.B. DuBois.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Mary McLeod Bethune.

9. What reason did the Post-Dispatch give for the evacuation of Martin Luther King Junior High School in the early spring of 1989?
(a) The emission of toxic chemicals.
(b) Lead in the drinking water.
(c) Sewage in the school.
(d) Fires in the kitchen.

10. 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) Funeral homes and car dealerships.
(d) Liquor stores and an outlet for the lottery.

11. According to Kozol, when visiting urban public schools who refused to take him to the neighborhoods were the schools were located?
(a) Public Transit.
(b) School Administrators.
(c) Taxi Drivers.
(d) Parents.

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

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

14. Whose voices does Kozol say were missing from summit conferences on education, severe reports, and ominous prescriptions?
(a) The parents' voices.
(b) The children's voices.
(c) The teachers' voices.
(d) The communities' voices.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children did Baldwin have in his classroom while teaching in the school located in the Boston suburbs?

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

3. How many years did Kozol spend visiting schools and speaking with children about their schools and neighborhoods?

4. What reason does Warren Franczyk, principal of Mary McLeod Bethune School, give for teachers losing their high school jobs in North Lawndale?

5. What is the racial makeup of 98 percent of the population in East St. Louis?

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