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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 did the press in Boston refer to troubled ghetto areas with a low infant mortality rate?
(a) Death Zones.
(b) Death Camps.
(c) Killer Zones.
(d) Ghetto Zones.

2. How did Kozol choose the cities that he visited?
(a) He visited cities where he had familiy.
(b) He chose cities that had were ranked as the most dangerous.
(c) There was no special logic in the cities he chose to visit.
(d) He visited cities with a high rate of infant mortality.

3. How did Carla Hawkins, the teacher of a combination fifth and sixth grade class, acquire all the materials and resources for her class?
(a) The school board provided her with funding.
(b) The principal bought them for her.
(c) She bought them herself.
(d) Another teacher loaned them to her.

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

5. Whose voices does Kozol say were missing from summit conferences on education, severe reports, and ominous prescriptions?
(a) The teachers' voices.
(b) The communities' voices.
(c) The children's voices.
(d) The parents' voices.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Kozol, what is a major problem at Lawndale Elementary School?

2. According to Bonita Brodt, a writer for the Chicago Tribune, who is the president in the textbooks that the students are reading at Goudy Elementary School?

3. How many children did Baldwin have in his classroom while teaching in the school located in the Boston suburbs?

4. Why does Kozol think the most enthusiastic and skilled teachers will not be attracted to urban schools, like Mary McLeod Bethune Schools?

5. According to sister Julia, why were classes never held at the newly constructed Jefferson School?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does Kozol describe East St. Louis?

8. How does Kozol describe the township of Sauget?

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

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