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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. Who said that Americans allow all of their children the things they need to compete at the highest levels of success?
(a) Lord Acton.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) Martin Luther King.
(d) Queen Elizabeth.

2. How many students attend Camden High School?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 4,000.

3. What does the principal of Tunisia's school say she sees children doing in order to have something to eat at home?
(a) Pocketing chicken nuggets.
(b) Staying after school to receive free dinner.
(c) Asking for extra food at lunch.
(d) Stealing from other students lunches.

4. Which citiy sits across the Delaware River from Camden?
(a) Philadelphia, PA.
(b) Dover, DE.
(c) New York, NY.
(d) Trenton, NJ.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the former principal of East Side High School that was praised by U.S. Education Secretary William Bennett?

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?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What similarity exist between selective schools in New York and Chicago?

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

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

5. Describe PS 79.

6. Why does Kozol think that inner city problems would not be totally solved by better schools?

7. Describe PS 261.

8. Hoe does Kozol describe Camden, New Jersey?

9. How does Kozol describe the two worlds of Washington, D.C.?

10. How does the court ultimately rule in the class-action suit filed in 1981 by parents of school children in East Orange, Camden, Irvington, and Jersey City? What is the reaction of wealthier tax payers?

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