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

2. How did Kozol choose the cities that he visited?
(a) He chose cities that had were ranked as the most dangerous.
(b) There was no special logic in the cities he chose to visit.
(c) He visited cities where he had familiy.
(d) He visited cities with a high rate of infant mortality.

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

4. How many teachers did Kozol's students in the urban Boston school have before he was assigned to teach their class?
(a) 11.
(b) 13.
(c) 14.
(d) 12.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Kozol, East St. Louis has one of the highest rates of which disease in America?

2. How many non-white students does Kozol say attended most of the urban schools he visited?

3. Why does Du Sable High School's principal have a hard time retaining young teachers at his school?

4. What court decision found that segregated institutions for black people could exist as long as they were equal to those open to white people?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Kozol describe the township of Sauget?

2. How does Coral Hawkins stand out from most of the teachers Kozol meets at Mary McLeod Bethune School?

3. What reasons does Irl Solomon give for young teachers not staying at Martin Luther King Jr. High?

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

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

6. How does Kozol describe East St. Louis?

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

8. How do many of the children know that they are receiving an inferior education? What happens to many of the children after they realize they are receiving an inferior education?

9. Why does the author think that many wealthy people think it is okay if poor children receive fewer advantages?

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

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