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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Asking for extra food at lunch.
(c) Stealing from other students lunches.
(d) Pocketing chicken nuggets.

3. 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) Homogeneous grouping.
(c) Heterogeneous grouping.
(d) Random selection.

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

5. According to one teacher at Camden High School, what does the high school proficiency exam control?
(a) Curriculum.
(b) The school's hours of operation.
(c) The classes offered at the school.
(d) School resources.

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

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

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

9. According to Kozol, what is the estimated worth of the education a child receives in the suburbs of New York?
(a) $11,000.
(b) $13,000.
(c) $14,000.
(d) $12,000.

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

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

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

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

14. How does Harper's mother describe her life in an Anacostia neighborhood?
(a) Living on cloud nine.
(b) A cold death.
(c) A train wreck.
(d) A battle zone.

15. According to Kozol, how many people are supposed to be in PS261 at one time?
(a) 800.
(b) 1100.
(c) 900.
(d) 1000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the former purpose of the building that houses PS261?

2. What is one way not mentioned by Kozol's friend Elizabeth that poor people know that they are living in a rich society?

3. According to Kozol, what does the city of New York supply each ghetto school with?

4. What are two of the problems that Vernon Dover, principal of Pyne Point Junior High, tells Kozol exist at his school?

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

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