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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. How long do some of the students at Morris High School think it will be before blacks and whites work together to better public education?
(a) 100 years.
(b) 200 years.
(c) 400 years.
(d) 300 years.

2. What does John Coons of the University of California, Berkeley say all children technically are?
(a) Educated.
(b) Obedient.
(c) Rich.
(d) Poor.

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

4. What does the principal of Tunisia's school say she sees children doing in order to have something to eat at home?
(a) Asking for extra food at lunch.
(b) Stealing from other students lunches.
(c) Pocketing chicken nuggets.
(d) Staying after school to receive free dinner.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Kozol, how many people are supposed to be in PS261 at one time?

2. At what age does the principal in Anacostia say many of the boys in her school will be dead?

3. What influential African American does Kozol note was often cited when black parents or black school officials discussed educating students in the urban public school system?

4. What are test scores in math and reading in America graded against?

5. In the chapter entitled "Life on the Mississippi," what office is described as the largest office in Illinois?

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