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

2. 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?
(a) City officials.
(b) The federal government.
(c) Suburan school principals.
(d) Business leaders.

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

4. According to Kozol, whose real names are used in the book Savage Inequalities?
(a) Religious characters.
(b) Adult characters.
(c) Public officials.
(d) Child characters.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children did Baldwin have in his classroom while teaching in the urban school in Boston?

2. In what month is black history celebrated in the public schools?

3. What influential African American does Kozol note was often cited when black parents or black school officials discussed educating students in the urban public school system?

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

5. According to Reverend Jim Wolff, who moved in to North Lawndale when businesses moved out?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What type of health issues exist in East St. Louis? Why do these illnesses exist?

3. 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?

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

5. How does Kozol describe the township of Sauget?

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

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

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

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

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