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

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

3. In what year was the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education made?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1956.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1954.

4. What does Sister Julia say that the nicest house in the Villa Griffin homes is used for?
(a) A whorehouse.
(b) A motel.
(c) A government welfare office.
(d) A foster home.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What system of schools does Kozol say are highly attractive to more sophisticated parents, who are disproportionately white and middle class?

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

3. How much money does Irl Soloman earn at East St. Louis High each year after teaching for nearly 30 years?

4. In what year was the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson rendered?

5. What happened to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home in Lawndale after he moved?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Kozol say he wrote the book Savage Inequalities?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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