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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, "The Equality of Innocence: Washington, D.C.,".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Kozol condemn for offering to help troubled non-white schools, but who actually intend for disadvantaged students to prepare themselves for low-quality, factory jobs?
(a) Suburan school principals.
(b) Business leaders.
(c) The federal government.
(d) City officials.

2. What type of people does Octovia, a child at the Anacostia elementary school, say that the girls want to be like when they grow up?
(a) Lawyers.
(b) Rock stars.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Secretaries.

3. Why did Kozol stay in Cherry Hill while he was visiting Camden?
(a) Because Kozol prefered to stay in an upper-income neighborhood.
(b) Because the school administrators thought Kozol would be safer in the suburbs.
(c) Because Cherry Hill offers more shops and eateries.
(d) Because Camden did not have any hotels.

4. What is one way Jonathan Kozol says can show people how valuable we think they are?
(a) By the number of social workers assigned to a school.
(b) By the amount of welfare they receive.
(c) By the textbooks that are in the classrooms at the school.
(d) By the medical care we offer them.

5. What years did the events in the book Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools take place?
(a) 1988-1992.
(b) 1990-1991.
(c) 1988-1990.
(d) 1986-1990.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does the principal at Camden High School give to the dividing up of the children based on their previous test results?

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

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

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

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