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

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

3. According to the principal, how much does Woodrow Wilson spend yearly on each student?
(a) $3,000.
(b) $2,000.
(c) $4,000.
(d) $5,000.

4. 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) Teachers.
(b) Lawyers.
(c) Rock stars.
(d) Secretaries.

5. What does Kozol say the high math and reading test scores in America are based on?
(a) How much funding the schools receive.
(b) How badly other schools are doing.
(c) How well-prepared the students are.
(d) How smart the students are.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Harper's mother describe her life in an Anacostia neighborhood?

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. What does Thurston say black people did not understand regarding their children and the public education system in Washington, D.C. and those in the surrounding suburbs?

4. What does the Wall Street Journal say has remained static while per-pupil spending has increased?

5. Where do most of the motivated children at Morris High School plan to go after they graduate?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe PS 79.

4. 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?

5. 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?

6. What three Supreme Court justices wrote dissents for the Milliken v. Bradley case? Why did each dissent?

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

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

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

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