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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term does Harper describe as "you crawl along the street and look for rocks. You look for rocks that other people spill. You crawl along your knees..."
(a) Geeking.
(b) Craping.
(c) Streaking.
(d) Cracking.

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

3. How many students attend PS261 daily?
(a) 1,500.
(b) 1,300.
(c) 1,200.
(d) 1,400.

4. At what age does the principal in Anacostia say many of the boys in her school will be dead?
(a) 21.
(b) 18.
(c) 28.
(d) 25.

5. How many students attend Camden High School?
(a) 3,000.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 4,000.
(d) 2,000.

6. What types of courses does the principal at Woodrow Wilson High School say he is unable to provide his students?
(a) Honors courses.
(b) Remedial courses.
(c) AP courses.
(d) Online courses.

7. 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) Plant a flowerbox.
(b) Paint the dirty walls.
(c) Buy new textbooks.
(d) Buy curtains for her teacher.

8. What is one way Jonathan Kozol says can show people how valuable we think they are?
(a) By the medical care we offer them.
(b) By the number of social workers assigned to a school.
(c) By the textbooks that are in the classrooms at the school.
(d) By the amount of welfare they receive.

9. How many of the girls does the principal in Anacostia say will be pregnant by the fifth grade?
(a) One third.
(b) Three fourths.
(c) Two thirds.
(d) One fourth.

10. Which citiy sits across the Delaware River from Camden?
(a) Trenton, NJ.
(b) New York, NY.
(c) Dover, DE.
(d) Philadelphia, PA.

11. What does Kozol think will not solve inner-city problems?
(a) More social workers in the neighborhood.
(b) More social services.
(c) Better schools.
(d) More minority-owned businesses.

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

13. 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.

14. What does the New York Times say the better public schools are intended to do?
(a) Give the rich an alternative to high-priced private schools.
(b) To uphold the school system's high academic standards.
(c) Attract or skim off the more privileged children.
(d) To serve as academic school.

15. What type of industry was Camden famous for at one point?
(a) Pharmacuticals.
(b) Chemical plants.
(c) Manufacturing.
(d) Farming.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Thurston, why are poor people in Washington, D.C. willing to accept a dual system of public education?

2. What does the principal at PS79 say he will have to do if more students enroll at his school?

3. According to the principal, how much does Woodrow Wilson spend yearly on each student?

4. What does Kozol say Camden's entire property wealth of $250 million is less than the value of?

5. What state is Camden located in?

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