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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason do students give Kozol for dropping out of school in New York?
(a) The did not get good grades.
(b) They felt that school was not for them.
(c) They did not like their teachers.
(d) They felt unknown in their schools.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What was the former purpose of the building that houses PS261?
(a) Roller skating rink.
(b) Factory.
(c) YMCA.
(d) Movie theater.

8. According to the principal, how much does Woodrow Wilson spend yearly on each student?
(a) $4,000.
(b) $3,000.
(c) $2,000.
(d) $5,000.

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

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

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

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

13. What type of facility is missing from Camden High School?
(a) A lunch facility.
(b) Teacher's lounge.
(c) Gym.
(d) Locker room.

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

15. According to Thurston, why are poor people in Washington, D.C. willing to accept a dual system of public education?
(a) Poor parents want to expand the educational opportunities of their children.
(b) They want to keep the white and black middle class from fleeing the city.
(c) They are ignorant to the fleeing of the middle class from the city.
(d) The poor do not realize there is a dual system of education.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the school administrator at Morris High School in the South Bronx encourage the supposedly slow children to express themselves?

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

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

5. How many of the girls does the principal in Anacostia say will be pregnant by the fifth grade?

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