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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What business entities exist in Camden but do not pay taxes?
(a) A sewage treatment plant and a chemical plant.
(b) An incinerator and sewage treatment plant.
(c) A chemical plant and incinerator.
(d) A pharmacutical plant and a sewage treatment plant.

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

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

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

5. Why does one of the psychiatrists that Kozol speaks to believe many whites think more money will not help inner city schools?
(a) Because they believe that non-whites do not deserve a better education.
(b) Because they believe non-whites are actually born inferior.
(c) Because they believe that poor blacks should not be allowed in white schools.
(d) Because they believe that a good education should be reserved for the rich.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Thurston, why are poor people in Washington, D.C. willing to accept a dual system of public education?

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

3. What is one way Jonathan Kozol says can show people how valuable we think they are?

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

5. How low does Kozol report you can purchase a home for in North Camden?

Short Essay Questions

1. What resources do the teachers at Pyne Point Junior High lack? How do the teachers improvise?

2. Describe PS 261.

3. How do the children attending public schools in the suburbs of New York that Kozol interviews feel about sharing funding and resources with children at urban public schools?

4. Describe PS 79.

5. Why would the students at Woodrow Wilson High want to remain there rather than attending a school with better resources?

6. Name three specific examples of overcrowding in New Jersey public schools.

7. Describe the Milliken v. Bradley case's appeal to Supreme Court.

8. What problems do highly selective schools create in New York? Why do they create these problems?

9. What does Tunisia, a student at Anacostia Elementary School, say that she would do if she had money? Why?

10. Where does Delabian Rice-Thurston say the rich and middle class in Washington, D.C. try to send their children to school? Why don't the poor parents send their children to the same schools?

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