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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) Secretaries.
(b) Lawyers.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Rock stars.

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

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

5. 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) Advertisements.
(c) Reading books.
(d) TV.

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

7. What does the Wall Street Journal say has remained static while per-pupil spending has increased?
(a) The dropout rate.
(b) Student achievement.
(c) Student attendance.
(d) Teacher retention rates.

8. Why did Kozol stay in Cherry Hill while he was visiting Camden?
(a) Because the school administrators thought Kozol would be safer in the suburbs.
(b) Because Cherry Hill offers more shops and eateries.
(c) Because Kozol prefered to stay in an upper-income neighborhood.
(d) Because Camden did not have any hotels.

9. According to Kozol, what is the estimated worth of the education a child receives in the inner city of New York?
(a) $4,000.
(b) $5,000.
(c) $4,500.
(d) $5,500.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are test scores in math and reading in America graded against?

2. After speaking to the kindergarten class at PS79, Kozol learns that one of the African-American boys in the class travels how long each day to get to school?

3. According to Harper, how does her teacher punish the children?

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

5. How much money does President H.W. Bush's alma-mater spend per student?

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