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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 Bonita Brodt, a writer for the Chicago Tribune, who is the president in the textbooks that the students are reading at Goudy Elementary School?
(a) Richard Nixon.
(b) George H. W. Bush.
(c) John F. Kennedy.
(d) Ronald Reagan.

2. How much money does Kozol say is spent on each child attending a poor, non-white, public school around Chicago?
(a) $4,000.
(b) $6,000.
(c) $7,000.
(d) $5,000.

3. What reason does Warren Franczyk, principal of Mary McLeod Bethune School, give for teachers losing their high school jobs in North Lawndale?
(a) There is a need for more teachers at the elementary-school level.
(b) The low enrollment at the schools.
(c) They are shutting down certain schools.
(d) They are unqualified for the jobs.

4. In what month is black history celebrated in the public schools?
(a) May.
(b) October.
(c) January.
(d) February.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the school board in Dearborn Park do that they think constitutes as making school choice equally accessible?

3. What court decision found that segregated institutions for black people could exist as long as they were equal to those open to white people?

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?

5. Why did Sam Morgan, principal of East St. Louis High, not attend the school as a student?

(see the answer key)

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