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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. What does the principal of Tunisia's school say she sees children doing in order to have something to eat at home?
(a) Staying after school to receive free dinner.
(b) Pocketing chicken nuggets.
(c) Stealing from other students lunches.
(d) Asking for extra food at lunch.

2. What is the only bright, clean building in the Camden area?
(a) The newest school.
(b) The mall.
(c) The whorehouse.
(d) The new prison.

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

4. At an elementary school in Anacostia, Kozol speaks with a young girl named Tunisia. What is not one of the things that Tunisia tell Kozol she would do if she had a lot of money?
(a) Buy curtains for her teacher.
(b) Buy new textbooks.
(c) Paint the dirty walls.
(d) Plant a flowerbox.

5. How low does Kozol report you can purchase a home for in North Camden?
(a) $1,000.
(b) $4,000.
(c) $10,000.
(d) $7,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who used to attend the church in Camden that Kozol passes while chatting with two teachers from Camden High School?

2. What business entities exist in Camden but do not pay taxes?

3. According to the Wall Street Journal, what are the two worlds of Washington, D.C.?

4. What types of courses does the principal at Woodrow Wilson High School say he is unable to provide his students?

5. What is one way Jonathan Kozol says can show people how valuable we think they are?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe PS 79.

2. How does the court ultimately rule in the class-action suit filed in 1981 by parents of school children in East Orange, Camden, Irvington, and Jersey City? What is the reaction of wealthier tax payers?

3. What similarity exist between selective schools in New York and Chicago?

4. What resources do the teachers at Pyne Point Junior High lack? How do the teachers improvise?

5. Name three specific examples of overcrowding in New Jersey public schools.

6. How does Kozol describe the Anacostia neighborhood where Harper and her mother live?

7. How do the children attending public schools in the suburbs of New York that Kozol interviews feel about sharing funding and resources with children at urban public schools?

8. How are test scores in math and reading determined? How do the determination of these scores affect children in poor schools?

9. Why do public schools in certain areas of New York suffer more than others?

10. Who is Joe Clark? What role did he play in the New Jersey public school system?

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