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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the dropout rate for Woodrow Wilson High School?
(a) 58%.
(b) 80%.
(c) 72%.
(d) 68%.

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

3. What do the students at Camden High School do during their lunch hour?
(a) Eat lunch in the cafeteria.
(b) Attend a remedial class.
(c) They leave school to obtain lunch elsewhere.
(d) Get bused to a school in Cherry Hill.

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

5. 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.

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

7. How does the school administrator at Morris High School in the South Bronx encourage the supposedly slow children to express themselves?
(a) By writing poetry.
(b) In theater.
(c) By writing short stories.
(d) Through interpretive dance.

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

9. What racial group makes up 92 percent of the children that attend the public schools in Washington, D.C.?
(a) Hispanic.
(b) Asian.
(c) White.
(d) Black.

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

11. 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) Cracking.
(c) Craping.
(d) Streaking.

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

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

14. According to Kozol, what does the city of New York supply each ghetto school with?
(a) Pepper spray.
(b) Guns.
(c) Police escorts.
(d) Handcuffs.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of facility is missing from Camden High School?

2. What term does the principal at Camden High School give to the dividing up of the children based on their previous test results?

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

4. According to Kozol, students in what racial group are more often categorized as retarded?

5. What type of people does Octovia, a child at the Anacostia elementary school, say that the girls want to be like when they grow up?

(see the answer keys)

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