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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. Who does Kozol say is the biggest employer in East St. Louis?
(a) Public education.
(b) Pfizer Chemical Co.
(c) Drug trade.
(d) Prostitution.

2. Why did Sam Morgan, principal of East St. Louis High, not attend the school as a student?
(a) He lived to far way to attend the school.
(b) He did not grow up in East St. Louis.
(c) It was an all-white high school.
(d) The school was not built when he was in high school.

3. Who authored the poem that one of the most embittered students in Kozol's class memorized?
(a) T.S. Eliot.
(b) Robert Frost.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) Claude McKay.

4. 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?
(a) Prison.
(b) Living on the streets.
(c) College.
(d) The military.

5. What Supreme Court decision found that segregated education was unconstitutional because it was "inherently unequal"?
(a) Briggs, et. al. v. Elliott, et. al.
(b) Davis, et. al. v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, VA et al.
(c) Plessy v. Ferguson.
(d) Brown v. Board of Education.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What years did the events in the book Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools take place?

3. The history of East St. Louis shows that African Americans were lured to the city for what reason?

4. How much money does Irl Soloman earn at East St. Louis High each year after teaching for nearly 30 years?

5. How many years did Kozol spend visiting schools and speaking with children about their schools and neighborhoods?

(see the answer key)

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