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

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

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, "Life on the Mississippi: East St. Louis, Illinois,".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Approximately how many neighborhoods did Kozol visit?
(a) 30.
(b) 20.
(c) 15.
(d) 25.

2. What types of educational options had been proposed in Baltimore, Milwaukee, and Detroit?
(a) All-girl schools.
(b) Separate schools/classes for black males.
(c) Charter schools with a focus on black culture.
(d) Busing black students to schools in white neighborhoods.

3. What Supreme Court decision found that segregated education was unconstitutional because it was "inherently unequal"?
(a) Plessy v. Ferguson.
(b) Davis, et. al. v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, VA et al.
(c) Briggs, et. al. v. Elliott, et. al.
(d) Brown v. Board of Education.

4. What area lies to the east of East St. Louis?
(a) Illinois bluffs.
(b) Illinois wasteland.
(c) Cleveland.
(d) Chicago.

5. When Kozol decides to see what's happening in America's schools, what shocked and outraged him most about the public school system?
(a) The overcrowding in classrooms.
(b) The lack of qualified teachers in the school system.
(c) The lack of books in the classrooms.
(d) The segregation that still existed in the school system.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the two sources of lead in East St. Louis named in the Life on the Mississippi chapter?

2. What was Kozol's purpose for writing the book Savage Inequalities?

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

4. According to Kozol, when are citizens given $400 in exchange for a release from liability?

5. Who was two hours late when they came to speak at East St. Louis High?

(see the answer key)

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