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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 fate of Raymond Abbot long after the court's decision is rendered?
(a) He is a student at Rutgers University.
(b) He is a cocaine addict in jail.
(c) He is living on the streets.
(d) He is working full-time as a manager in a fast food resturant.

2. How low does Kozol report you can purchase a home for in North Camden?
(a) $4,000.
(b) $10,000.
(c) $1,000.
(d) $7,000.

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

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

5. How does the school administrator at Morris High School in the South Bronx encourage the supposedly slow children to express themselves?
(a) In theater.
(b) By writing short stories.
(c) By writing poetry.
(d) Through interpretive dance.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Thurston, why are poor people in Washington, D.C. willing to accept a dual system of public education?

2. According to Delabian Rice Thurston, where do the rich in Washington, D.C. try to send their children?

3. What racial group makes up 92 percent of the children that attend the public schools in Washington, D.C.?

4. According to Harper, how does her teacher punish the children?

5. What does the New York Times say the better public schools are intended to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. How does the judge respond to the class-action suit filed by the parent's of Raymond Abbot?

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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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