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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the racial makeup of 98 percent of the population in East St. Louis?
2. What was the poem that is memorized by the students in Kozol's class about?
3. What system of schools does Kozol say are highly attractive to more sophisticated parents, who are disproportionately white and middle class?
4. According to Kozol, when are citizens given $400 in exchange for a release from liability?
5. According to Kozol, what demographic lives predominantly to the east of East St. Louis?
Short Essay Questions
1. What reasons does Irl Solomon give for young teachers not staying at Martin Luther King Jr. High?
2. How does Kozol describe the township of Sauget?
3. Describe the urban public school that Kozol taught in while in Boston.
4. What problems exist at Martin Luther King High School in East St. Louis?
5. What financial cuts are proposed for the schools in East St. Louis? Why do cuts have to be made to the schools in East St. Louis? Who is responsible for making the cuts?
6. How does Kozol describe East St. Louis?
7. Compare the two court decisions, Brown v. Board of Education and Plessy v. Ferguson.
8. Compare Coral Hawkins to the gospel teacher at Mary McLeod Bethune School.
9. 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?
10. What is there for residents to do in East St. Louis for fun?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast the urban public school systems in New York and Camden. How are these two urban school systems similar? How are they different? Please use specific examples from the book? Please use specific examples from the book.
Essay Topic 2
Kozol has his class read Langston Hughes poem, A Dream Deferred. Based on Kozol's interviews, how does this poem apply to the lives of the children Kozol visits in the urban public school systems? Why would their dreams be deferred? What happens to those students whose dreams are deferred? Please use specific examples from the book.
Essay Topic 3
Kozol visits schools where teachers and administrators admit to sending their children to schools other than the one where they teach. What reasons do they give for sending their children to other schools? What is the significance of teachers at poor inner city schools sending their children to suburban public schools or more affluent urban public schools? What theme does this represent? Please use specific examples from the book.
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