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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. According to Reverend Jim Wolff, who moved in to North Lawndale when businesses moved out?
(a) Government offices.
(b) Churches.
(c) Schools.
(d) Gangs.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What song does the group of children in the Villa Griffin homes say they sing after the flag pledge?

2. Approximately how many neighborhoods did Kozol visit?

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

4. According to Kozol, whose responsibility is it to supply all children with equally good schools?

5. Where did Kozol hold his classes while teaching in the urban school in Boston?

Short Essay Questions

1. What type of health issues exist in East St. Louis? Why do these illnesses exist?

2. What financial cuts are proposed for the schools in East St. Louis? Why do cuts have to be made to the schools in East St. Louis? Who is responsible for making the cuts?

3. How does Coral Hawkins stand out from most of the teachers Kozol meets at Mary McLeod Bethune School?

4. Compare Baldwin's experience teaching in the urban school district in Boston and the suburban school district west of Boston.

5. What problem exists at Lathrop Elementary School, and what is the source of this problem?

6. How the suburban public schools funded compared to the urban public schools?

7. Why does Kozol condemn business leaders and legislators for not improving public education?

8. Why is employment limited in East St. Louis?

9. How does Kozol describe East St. Louis?

10. Why does Kozol decide to leave teaching and focus on other social issues?

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