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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 system of schools does Kozol say are highly attractive to more sophisticated parents, who are disproportionately white and middle class?
(a) The urban school system.
(b) The magnet school system.
(c) The suburban school system.
(d) The charter school system.

2. What does the school board in Dearborn Park do that they think constitutes as making school choice equally accessible?
(a) Send school representatives to parents homes.
(b) Offer the same printed materials to all parents.
(c) Give presentations about the different schools in the area.
(d) Invite parents to school board meetings.

3. According to Kozol, what is a major problem at Lawndale Elementary School?
(a) The teachers lack adequate preperation.
(b) The children do not have recess.
(c) The lack of quality books.
(d) The facilities are old and out-of-date.

4. In what year did Martin Luther King, Jr. live in North Lawndale?
(a) 1956.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1962.

5. Who was two hours late when they came to speak at East St. Louis High?
(a) Ron Brown.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Jesse Jackson.
(d) Colin Powell.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Kozol, why is eighth-grade graduation highly celebrated in North Lawndale?

3. What religious order helps to operate a mission at the Villa Griffin homes?

4. Which one of the following does Kozol not mention as a place where the men in East St. Louis go when they disappear from the community?

5. According to Kozol, when visiting urban public schools who refused to take him to the neighborhoods were the schools were located?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How do many of the children know that they are receiving an inferior education? What happens to many of the children after they realize they are receiving an inferior education?

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

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

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

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

10. What problems exist at Martin Luther King High School in East St. Louis?

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