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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. How many of the girls does the principal in Anacostia say will be pregnant by the fifth grade?
(a) One fourth.
(b) Three fourths.
(c) Two thirds.
(d) One third.

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

3. According to Kozol, students in what racial group are more often categorized as retarded?
(a) Black.
(b) Hispanic.
(c) Asian.
(d) White.

4. What type of facility is missing from Camden High School?
(a) Gym.
(b) Teacher's lounge.
(c) Locker room.
(d) A lunch facility.

5. According to Kozol, what statistic does New York find hard to track?
(a) The actual number of teachers in the system.
(b) The actual dropout rate.
(c) The races and ethnicities of the students in the public school system.
(d) The number of students enrolled in urban public schools.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only bright, clean building in the Camden area?

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

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

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

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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. How are test scores in math and reading determined? How do the determination of these scores affect children in poor schools?

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

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

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

7. How does Kozol describe the D.C. school system?

8. Describe PS 261.

9. Who is Joe Clark? What role did he play in the New Jersey public school system?

10. Hoe does Kozol describe Camden, New Jersey?

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