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

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

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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. According to Carla Hawkins, Chicago's public schools are in short supply of what type of resource?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Supplies.
(c) Students.
(d) Funding .

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

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

4. How did Carla Hawkins, the teacher of a combination fifth and sixth grade class, acquire all the materials and resources for her class?
(a) She bought them herself.
(b) The school board provided her with funding.
(c) The principal bought them for her.
(d) Another teacher loaned them to her.

5. What types of educational options had been proposed in Baltimore, Milwaukee, and Detroit?
(a) Busing black students to schools in white neighborhoods.
(b) Charter schools with a focus on black culture.
(c) Separate schools/classes for black males.
(d) All-girl schools.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many housing units are in the Villa Griffin homes?

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

3. What religious order helps to operate a mission at the Villa Griffin homes?

4. How much money does Irl Soloman say he would earn by teaching one of the schools in the suburbs of St. Louis?

5. Why does Kozol think the most enthusiastic and skilled teachers will not be attracted to urban schools, like Mary McLeod Bethune Schools?

(see the answer key)

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