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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) Cleveland.
(b) Illinois wasteland.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Illinois bluffs.

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

3. What reason does Warren Franczyk, principal of Mary McLeod Bethune School, give for teachers losing their high school jobs in North Lawndale?
(a) They are shutting down certain schools.
(b) They are unqualified for the jobs.
(c) There is a need for more teachers at the elementary-school level.
(d) The low enrollment at the schools.

4. According to Carla Hawkins, Chicago's public schools are in short supply of what type of resource?
(a) Students.
(b) Funding .
(c) Teachers.
(d) Supplies.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two poets did Kozol expose the children in the urban district to?

2. How many teachers did Kozol's students in the urban Boston school have before he was assigned to teach their class?

3. Who was two hours late when they came to speak at East St. Louis High?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Kozol describe the township of Sauget?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Compare the two court decisions, Brown v. Board of Education and Plessy v. Ferguson.

10. Why does Kozol condemn business leaders and legislators for not improving public education?

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