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

2. Which city does Kozol point out as having a non-white administration for two years where conditions did not improve?
(a) Baltimore.
(b) Camden.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Detroit.

3. 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?
(a) 2 hours.
(b) 3 hours.
(c) 4 hours.
(d) 1 hour.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who are the manual arts classes in the Riverdale school reserved for?

3. What does Kozol say Camden's entire property wealth of $250 million is less than the value of?

4. What is the dropout rate for Woodrow Wilson High School?

5. How long do some of the students at Morris High School think it will be before blacks and whites work together to better public education?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe PS 79.

2. Describe PS 261.

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

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

5. Hoe does Kozol describe Camden, New Jersey?

6. How does Kozol describe the Anacostia neighborhood where Harper and her mother live?

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

8. 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?

9. How do the suburban schools in New York compare to the urban schools in New York?

10. How does Kozol describe the situation at Asbury Park and Irvington?

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