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

2. What year did Kozol begin teaching in Boston?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1963.

3. What was Kozol's purpose for writing the book Savage Inequalities?
(a) To show parents' views of the American school system.
(b) To let teachers discuss the low pay they receive for such a demanding job.
(c) To let the voices, judgments, and longings of children be heard.
(d) To compile facts and figures about American urban school systems.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year did Kozol set off to visit schools and speak with children about education in urban areas?

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

5. In what year was the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education made?

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