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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Foreword and Prologue, "Looking Backward: 1964 to 1991,".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many teachers did Kozol's students in the urban Boston school have before he was assigned to teach their class?
(a) 12.
(b) 11.
(c) 14.
(d) 13.

2. Why was Kozol fired from his teaching job in the urban Boston school?
(a) For challenging the administration.
(b) For taking students on a field trip without parental permission.
(c) For teaching poetry that was not on the approved list.
(d) For leaving students unattended.

3. How did Kozol choose the cities that he visited?
(a) He visited cities with a high rate of infant mortality.
(b) There was no special logic in the cities he chose to visit.
(c) He visited cities where he had familiy.
(d) He chose cities that had were ranked as the most dangerous.

4. What was the poem that is memorized by the students in Kozol's class about?
(a) Infant mortality.
(b) Ghetto life.
(c) Broken dreams.
(d) The public school system.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson rendered?

2. What court decision found that segregated institutions for black people could exist as long as they were equal to those open to white people?

3. What year did Kozol begin teaching in Boston?

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

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

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