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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, "Other People's Children: North Lawndale and the South Side of Chicago,".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what year was the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education made?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1956.

3. 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.

4. 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?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Mary McLeod Bethune.
(c) W.E.B. DuBois.
(d) Booker T. Washington.

5. Why does Kozol introduce his class to poetry?
(a) Because he did not have any lesson plans.
(b) To reawaken the children's interest in school.
(c) To familiarize students with a different form of literature.
(d) Because he did not have any textbooks in his classroom.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Kozol, why is eighth-grade graduation highly celebrated in North Lawndale?

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

3. Who authored the poem that one of the most embittered students in Kozol's class memorized?

4. What reason did the Post-Dispatch give for the evacuation of Martin Luther King Junior High School in the early spring of 1989?

5. According to sister Julia, why were classes never held at the newly constructed Jefferson School?

(see the answer key)

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