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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of equipment do the students at Pyne Point Junior High use in their typing class?
(a) Slightly used computers from one of the schools in Cherry Hill.
(b) Old Dell computers.
(c) Old Olympia typewriters.
(d) New Olympia typewriters.

2. According to Kozol, students in what racial group are more often categorized with a speech disorder?
(a) White.
(b) Hispanic.
(c) Black.
(d) Asian.

3. According to Harper, how does her teacher punish the children?
(a) Detention.
(b) With a paddle.
(c) By sending them to the principal's office.
(d) By standing in the corner.

4. Who does the press hail as the answer to solving local school problems?
(a) School administrators.
(b) Non-white leaders.
(c) Government officials.
(d) White leaders.

5. According to Delabian Rice Thurston, where do the rich in Washington, D.C. try to send their children?
(a) Boarding school.
(b) Public school.
(c) Private school.
(d) Catholic school.

6. What are test scores in math and reading in America graded against?
(a) An absolute standard.
(b) A norm or average.
(c) A regional standard.
(d) A national standard.

7. Which school did President George H.W. Bush attend?
(a) Phillips Academy.
(b) St. Johns Academy.
(c) Dearfield Academy.
(d) Dearborne Academy.

8. According to Kozol, students in what racial group are more often categorized as retarded?
(a) Asian.
(b) Hispanic.
(c) White.
(d) Black.

9. Where do most of the motivated children at Morris High School plan to go after they graduate?
(a) Technical school.
(b) The military.
(c) To work.
(d) Community college.

10. What does the principal at PS79 say he will have to do if more students enroll at his school?
(a) He will have to bus them to another school.
(b) He will have to expand his classes.
(c) He will have to hold some classes in temporary trailers.
(d) He will have to find another building.

11. What state is Camden located in?
(a) Maryland.
(b) New Jersey.
(c) Virginia.
(d) New York.

12. Why did the city of Chicago construct the high-speed Dan Ryan Expressway to go around certain parts of the city?
(a) To cut off the section of the city that houses the housing projects for black people.
(b) To avoid sections of the city that were not highly populated.
(c) To cut off the industrial sections of the city.
(d) To only service those living in the suburbs, but working in downtown Chicago.

13. What does Kozol say the high math and reading test scores in America are based on?
(a) How much funding the schools receive.
(b) How badly other schools are doing.
(c) How well-prepared the students are.
(d) How smart the students are.

14. Who used to attend the church in Camden that Kozol passes while chatting with two teachers from Camden High School?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Robert Frost.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) Walt Whitman.

15. Who are the manual arts classes in the Riverdale school reserved for?
(a) The special education students.
(b) Students with an interest in the manual arts.
(c) The honors students.
(d) Truant students.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of early child care program can the principal at PS79 not start at his school?

2. What does John Coons of the University of California, Berkeley say all children technically are?

3. How much money does President H.W. Bush's alma-mater spend per student?

4. What does Thurston say black people did not understand regarding their children and the public education system in Washington, D.C. and those in the surrounding suburbs?

5. According to Kozol, what is the estimated worth of the education a child receives in the inner city of New York?

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