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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 Soweto.
(c) America's Cuba.
(d) America's Bosnia.

2. What system of schools does Kozol say are highly attractive to more sophisticated parents, who are disproportionately white and middle class?
(a) The urban school system.
(b) The suburban school system.
(c) The magnet school system.
(d) The charter school system.

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children did Baldwin have in his classroom while teaching in the school located in the Boston suburbs?

2. In what year was the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education made?

3. Who does Kozol say is the biggest employer in East St. Louis?

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

5. What year did Kozol begin teaching in Boston?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reasons does Irl Solomon give for young teachers not staying at Martin Luther King Jr. High?

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

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

4. What is there for residents to do in East St. Louis for fun?

5. How did East St. Louis become so poor?

6. How do many of the children know that they are receiving an inferior education? What happens to many of the children after they realize they are receiving an inferior education?

7. Why are the major industries that dump waste into East St. Louis not taxed there?

8. Compare the two court decisions, Brown v. Board of Education and Plessy v. Ferguson.

9. How does Kozol describe East St. Louis?

10. How does the pre-desegregation of schools compare to the post-desegregation?

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