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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. How many banks did the Tribune say were located in North Lawndale?
(a) 0.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

2. 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) Parents.
(d) Taxi Drivers.

3. The history of East St. Louis shows that African Americans were lured to the city for what reason?
(a) Low taxes.
(b) Good schools.
(c) The promise of jobs.
(d) New housing.

4. How much money does Kozol say is spent on each child attending a poor, non-white, public school around Chicago?
(a) $5,000.
(b) $7,000.
(c) $4,000.
(d) $6,000.

5. What types of schools does the Chicago public school system lack?
(a) Early Head Start centers.
(b) Elementary Schools.
(c) Junior high schools.
(d) High Schools.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is one way Kozol says children realize they are getting an inferior education?

3. What are the major industries in Sauget besides the chemical plants?

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

5. In what year was the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education made?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Kozol describe the Lawndale neighborhood?

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

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

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

6. Where does Kozol go on his journey to speak with students in the public school system? How does Kozol choose the schools that he visited?

7. How does the pre-desegregation of schools compare to the post-desegregation?

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

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

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

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