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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the Wall Street Journal, what are the two worlds of Washington, D.C.?
(a) The one of Capitol Hill and Brookland Manor.
(b) The one with sparking white monuments and Anacostia.
(c) The one of the House and the Senate.
(d) The one of presidents and congressmen.

2. 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?
(a) The changes that were needed to make the school system equivalent to those in the D.C. suburbs.
(b) The changes that the school system would make if white parents complained about the system.
(c) The length that whites would go to keep their children at a distance from black children.
(d) The amount of money needed to educate children in the school system.

3. What is one way not mentioned by Kozol's friend Elizabeth that poor people know that they are living in a rich society?
(a) Movies.
(b) Reading books.
(c) TV.
(d) Advertisements.

4. 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) Streaking.
(b) Craping.
(c) Cracking.
(d) Geeking.

5. What is the race of the non-white children in the accelerated classes at the school in Riverdale?
(a) Hispanic.
(b) African.
(c) Black.
(d) Asian.

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

7. 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.

8. How many students from Woodrow Wilson, according to Kozol, sign up to take the SAT in the spring of 1990 when he visits?
(a) 60.
(b) 132.
(c) 54.
(d) 77.

9. Which city does Kozol point out as having a non-white administration for two years where conditions did not improve?
(a) Detroit.
(b) Baltimore.
(c) Camden.
(d) Chicago.

10. What does Kozol say Camden's entire property wealth of $250 million is less than the value of?
(a) One school in the suburbs of Camden.
(b) One casino in Atlantic City.
(c) One upscale department store on New York City's Fifth Avenue.
(d) One country club in Cherry Hill.

11. What term does the principal at Camden High School give to the dividing up of the children based on their previous test results?
(a) Selective grouping.
(b) Random selection.
(c) Homogeneous grouping.
(d) Heterogeneous grouping.

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

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

14. How many districts are New York schools divided into?
(a) 32.
(b) 36.
(c) 34.
(d) 30.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Delabian Rice Thurston, where do the rich in Washington, D.C. try to send their children?

2. Why did Kozol stay in Cherry Hill while he was visiting Camden?

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

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

5. Why does one of the psychiatrists that Kozol speaks to believe many whites think more money will not help inner city schools?

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