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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kozol say lottery proceeds go towards?
(a) Welfare.
(b) Education.
(c) State revenue.
(d) State health system.

2. What statistic does Kozol give for the number of births in East St. Louis to single mothers?
(a) Three of five births are to single mothers.
(b) One of five births are to single mothers.
(c) Four of five births are to single mothers.
(d) Two of five births are to single mothers.

3. How many children did Baldwin have in his classroom while teaching in the urban school in Boston?
(a) 30.
(b) 35.
(c) 20.
(d) 25.

4. How many teachers did Kozol's students in the urban Boston school have before he was assigned to teach their class?
(a) 12.
(b) 14.
(c) 13.
(d) 11.

5. How many non-white students does Kozol say attended most of the urban schools he visited?
(a) 90 to 99 percent.
(b) 95 to 97 percent.
(c) 97 to 100 percent.
(d) 95 to 99 percent.

6. In what year was the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson rendered?
(a) 1897.
(b) 1898.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1896.

7. According to the 1980 census, what percentage of men and women 17 and older in North Lawndale had no jobs?
(a) 62.
(b) 58.
(c) 72.
(d) 68.

8. According to Kozol, what is a major problem at Lawndale Elementary School?
(a) The children do not have recess.
(b) The facilities are old and out-of-date.
(c) The teachers lack adequate preperation.
(d) The lack of quality books.

9. What area lies to the east of East St. Louis?
(a) Illinois wasteland.
(b) Cleveland.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Illinois bluffs.

10. According to Kozol, when visiting urban public schools who refused to take him to the neighborhoods were the schools were located?
(a) Public Transit.
(b) Taxi Drivers.
(c) School Administrators.
(d) Parents.

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

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

13. What court decision found that segregated institutions for black people could exist as long as they were equal to those open to white people?
(a) Briggs, et. al. v. Elliott et al.
(b) Brown v. Board of Education.
(c) Plessy v. Ferguson.
(d) Davis, et. al. v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, VA et al.

14. What does the school board in Dearborn Park do that they think constitutes as making school choice equally accessible?
(a) Send school representatives to parents homes.
(b) Offer the same printed materials to all parents.
(c) Invite parents to school board meetings.
(d) Give presentations about the different schools in the area.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Kozol condemn for offering to help troubled non-white schools, but who actually intend for disadvantaged students to prepare themselves for low-quality, factory jobs?

2. What are the two sources of lead in East St. Louis named in the Life on the Mississippi chapter?

3. What is the name of the Villa Griffin child whose sister was murdered by a friend of the mother?

4. In what month is black history celebrated in the public schools?

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

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