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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 authored the poem that one of the most embittered students in Kozol's class memorized?
(a) T.S. Eliot.
(b) Claude McKay.
(c) Robert Frost.
(d) Langston Hughes.

2. According to Kozol, students in what racial group are more often categorized as retarded?
(a) Asian.
(b) Black.
(c) White.
(d) Hispanic.

3. What does Kozol say the high math and reading test scores in America are based on?
(a) How badly other schools are doing.
(b) How much funding the schools receive.
(c) How smart the students are.
(d) How well-prepared the students are.

4. What term does the principal at Camden High School give to the dividing up of the children based on their previous test results?
(a) Heterogeneous grouping.
(b) Selective grouping.
(c) Random selection.
(d) Homogeneous grouping.

5. According to one teacher at Camden High School, what does the high school proficiency exam control?
(a) School resources.
(b) The classes offered at the school.
(c) The school's hours of operation.
(d) Curriculum.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Kozol, what demographic lives predominantly to the east of East St. Louis?

2. What does the New York Times say the better public schools are intended to do?

3. What type of facility is missing from Camden High School?

4. According to Kozol, what is the estimated worth of the education a child receives in the suburbs of New York?

5. How did the press in Boston refer to troubled ghetto areas with a low infant mortality rate?

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