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

2. How does the Post-Dispatch describe East St. Louis, Illinois?
(a) America's Cuba.
(b) America's Soweto.
(c) America's Somalia.
(d) America's Bosnia.

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

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

5. 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) $48,000.
(c) $50,000.
(d) $47,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. The history of East St. Louis shows that African Americans were lured to the city for what reason?

2. What does the school board in Dearborn Park do that they think constitutes as making school choice equally accessible?

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

4. Who does Kozol condemn for offering to help troubled non-white schools, but who actually intend for disadvantaged students to prepare themselves for low-quality, factory jobs?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Kozol describe East St. Louis?

2. How did East St. Louis become so poor?

3. How does Kozol describe the neighborhoods in which the urban schools he visited were located?

4. 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?

5. Why are the major industries that dump waste into East St. Louis not taxed there?

6. How does Kozol describe the township of Sauget?

7. Why, in most cities, do the influential people that Kozol meets show little inclination to address the segregation in the pubic school system?

8. Why is employment limited in East St. Louis?

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

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

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