Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, "Life on the Mississippi: East St. Louis, Illinois,".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Kozol, whose real names are used in the book Savage Inequalities?
(a) Adult characters.
(b) Child characters.
(c) Religious characters.
(d) Public officials.

2. How did the press in Boston refer to troubled ghetto areas with a low infant mortality rate?
(a) Death Camps.
(b) Ghetto Zones.
(c) Killer Zones.
(d) Death Zones.

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

4. How does the Post-Dispatch describe East St. Louis, Illinois?
(a) America's Somalia.
(b) America's Soweto.
(c) America's Bosnia.
(d) America's Cuba.

5. According to sister Julia, why were classes never held at the newly constructed Jefferson School?
(a) The construction was not done correctly.
(b) The school was not completed.
(c) There was too much sewage in the school.
(d) The school did not pass the school board inspection.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Kozol, when visiting urban public schools who refused to take him to the neighborhoods were the schools were located?

2. According to Kozol, when are citizens given $400 in exchange for a release from liability?

3. How many non-white students does Kozol say attended most of the urban schools he visited?

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

5. Which one of the following does Kozol not mention as a place where the men in East St. Louis go when they disappear from the community?

(see the answer key)

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