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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 one way Jonathan Kozol says can show people how valuable we think they are?
(a) By the textbooks that are in the classrooms at the school.
(b) By the medical care we offer them.
(c) By the number of social workers assigned to a school.
(d) By the amount of welfare they receive.

2. Where is Camden ranked in terms of its number of poor people as compared to other states in the U.S.?
(a) First.
(b) Third.
(c) Second.
(d) Fourth.

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

4. What does the New York Times say the better public schools are intended to do?
(a) Attract or skim off the more privileged children.
(b) To serve as academic school.
(c) Give the rich an alternative to high-priced private schools.
(d) To uphold the school system's high academic standards.

5. Who used to attend the church in Camden that Kozol passes while chatting with two teachers from Camden High School?
(a) Walt Whitman.
(b) Robert Frost.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the principal at PS79 say he will have to do if more students enroll at his school?

3. How does the school administrator at Morris High School in the South Bronx encourage the supposedly slow children to express themselves?

4. 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?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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