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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 year did Kozol begin teaching in Boston?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1964.
2. When Kozol decides to see what's happening in America's schools, what shocked and outraged him most about the public school system?
(a) The lack of books in the classrooms.
(b) The overcrowding in classrooms.
(c) The lack of qualified teachers in the school system.
(d) The segregation that still existed in the school system.
3. According to Kozol, whose real names are used in the book Savage Inequalities?
(a) Child characters.
(b) Adult characters.
(c) Religious characters.
(d) Public officials.
4. How did Kozol choose the cities that he visited?
(a) He visited cities where he had familiy.
(b) He visited cities with a high rate of infant mortality.
(c) He chose cities that had were ranked as the most dangerous.
(d) There was no special logic in the cities he chose to visit.
5. What types of educational options had been proposed in Baltimore, Milwaukee, and Detroit?
(a) Busing black students to schools in white neighborhoods.
(b) All-girl schools.
(c) Separate schools/classes for black males.
(d) Charter schools with a focus on black culture.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many years did Kozol spend visiting schools and speaking with children about their schools and neighborhoods?
2. According to Kozol, when visiting urban public schools who refused to take him to the neighborhoods were the schools were located?
3. Why was Kozol fired from his teaching job in the urban Boston school?
4. In what year was the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson rendered?
5. What was Kozol's purpose for writing the book Savage Inequalities?
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