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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. 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) Buy new textbooks.
(c) Paint the dirty walls.
(d) Buy curtains for her teacher.

2. According to Kozol, what does the city of New York supply each ghetto school with?
(a) Guns.
(b) Pepper spray.
(c) Handcuffs.
(d) Police escorts.

3. How many districts are New York schools divided into?
(a) 30.
(b) 36.
(c) 32.
(d) 34.

4. What issue do PS261 and PS79 share?
(a) Lack of space.
(b) Low enrollment.
(c) Lack of up-to-date resources.
(d) Unqualified teachers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What business entities exist in Camden but do not pay taxes?

2. What is the race of the non-white children in the accelerated classes at the school in Riverdale?

3. According to the Wall Street Journal, what are the two worlds of Washington, D.C.?

4. How many students attend Camden High School?

5. Who said that Americans allow all of their children the things they need to compete at the highest levels of success?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Hoe does Kozol describe Camden, New Jersey?

4. 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?

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

6. Describe PS 261.

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

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

9. Why do public schools in certain areas of New York suffer more than others?

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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