Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, "The Savage Inequalities of Public Education in New York,".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which two poets did Kozol expose the children in the urban district to?
(a) T.S. Eliot and Claude McKay.
(b) Robert Frost and Langston Hughes.
(c) Langston Hughes and T.S. Eliot.
(d) Langston Hughes and Claude McKay.

2. What does the New York Times say the better public schools are intended to do?
(a) Give the rich an alternative to high-priced private schools.
(b) To uphold the school system's high academic standards.
(c) To serve as academic school.
(d) Attract or skim off the more privileged children.

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

4. According to Reverend Jim Wolff, who moved in to North Lawndale when businesses moved out?
(a) Gangs.
(b) Schools.
(c) Churches.
(d) Government offices.

5. How many students attend PS261 daily?
(a) 1,500.
(b) 1,400.
(c) 1,300.
(d) 1,200.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose voices does Kozol say were missing from summit conferences on education, severe reports, and ominous prescriptions?

2. What Supreme Court decision found that segregated education was unconstitutional because it was "inherently unequal"?

3. Why did Sam Morgan, principal of East St. Louis High, not attend the school as a student?

4. How many non-white students does Kozol say attended most of the urban schools he visited?

5. What is the population of the town of Sauget?

(see the answer key)

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