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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Supreme Court decision found that segregated education was unconstitutional because it was "inherently unequal"?
(a) Davis, et. al. v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, VA et al.
(b) Plessy v. Ferguson.
(c) Briggs, et. al. v. Elliott, et. al.
(d) Brown v. Board of Education.

2. Why was Kozol fired from his teaching job in the urban Boston school?
(a) For taking students on a field trip without parental permission.
(b) For teaching poetry that was not on the approved list.
(c) For challenging the administration.
(d) For leaving students unattended.

3. How much money does Irl Soloman say he would earn by teaching one of the schools in the suburbs of St. Louis?
(a) $49,000.
(b) $47,000.
(c) $50,000.
(d) $48,000.

4. In what year did Kozol set off to visit schools and speak with children about education in urban areas?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1990.

5. 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 school receives more funding than Mary McLeod Bethune School.
(d) The magnet schools do not have staffing problems.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Kozol's purpose for writing the book Savage Inequalities?

3. What religious order helps to operate a mission at the Villa Griffin homes?

4. According to Kozol, which buildings in East St. Louis are the nicest?

5. At Mary McLeod Bethune School, what does the gospel teacher accuse the children of doing if they fail to sing properly?

Short Essay Questions

1. What financial cuts are proposed for the schools in East St. Louis? Why do cuts have to be made to the schools in East St. Louis? Who is responsible for making the cuts?

2. Why does Kozol decide to leave teaching and focus on other social issues?

3. How the suburban public schools funded compared to the urban public schools?

4. How does Kozol describe the Lawndale neighborhood?

5. Compare Coral Hawkins to the gospel teacher at Mary McLeod Bethune School.

6. Describe the urban public school that Kozol taught in while in Boston.

7. What problem exists at Lathrop Elementary School, and what is the source of this problem?

8. What does the media, parents, and teachers think the issue is with public education?

9. Compare Baldwin's experience teaching in the urban school district in Boston and the suburban school district west of Boston.

10. What problems exist at Martin Luther King High School in East St. Louis?

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